3973 BC clan meeting

In my timeline that dates Wolf Brother to 3969 BC because of the funny number, I know I have the maturity level of a 12 year old. But you know, Torak was twelve in the first two entries in the series, Torak's childhood trauma moment would have occurred in the year 3973 BC, five years before Spirit Walker. So Torak turns 13 in 3968 BC, so he was born on June 21st, 3981 BC, which means that he just turned 6000 in 2021, the year I started reading Wolf Brother. That means I heard about the series literally 3 months after his 6000th birthday.
So Torak and his father were on a beach, with all the huts and tents up. He hadn't quite turned eight yet. A whole bunch of kids started saying his father stunk, he went mad, and that he swallowed a ghost's breath. The kids threw a few stones, and Fa pulled little Torak away... those kids didn't know that this kid, or really his sheer "plot armor", as book nerds apparently call it when a character can't fucking die merely for being too essential to the plot, would save the universe. That's Torak's real power, not spirit walking, not talking to wolves.
5 years later Torak would come back to that exact same beach and the PTSD would kick in...