The raven came to look for them amid the Sierra peaks. The old men shouldn't even be alive any longer, but they were-they'd been together as part of the landscape for over 150 years. Wu was Chinese, a refugee of the Opium wars and the Taiping Rebellion. He'd sailed across the Eastern Ocean to California at the behest of Dizang the bodhisattva. Francisco was a Yokuts Indian captured by the Spanish army and raised by the friars at Mission San Luis Obispo. After his escape he'd become a bear shaman. The two men's fates have intertwined in such a way that their lives have gone on and on as they...