A strange dynamic seemed to exist between Falcon and the Cheyenne woman, Sly had noticed. At first she thought it was sexual attraction—the ganger was handsome in an unpolished kind of way, and the diminutive girl cute the way Sly had always wanted to be as a kid. But then she recognized that there was more to it, maybe much more. They had something important in common, something that underlaid their entire lives. Sly wondered if it was because Falcon was now "walking the path of the shaman"—whatever that meant.