The Ancient Child Chapter Summary & Analysis - Book 1, Chapter 24, This Matter of Having No Name Is Perhaps the Center of the Story Summary

Book 1, Chapter 24, This Matter of Having No Name Is Perhaps the Center of the Story Summary

Set remembers a time when he almost fell of a wharf. A large black man with a beard and trumpet grabs Set with one huge hand. His father, Cate, catches up and Loki spins out of the black man's grasp. He hears a high peal of laughter from him. Set then sees a small shark and feels that it dies, although it had been inanimate for a time before. He remembers when his father died and Bent adopted him.

Set remembers a story that his father told him. One night a little boy walks into the Piegan, also known as Blackfeet, camp. The tribe members are both afraid and mystified. The little boy talks to them, although in a strange tongue, and is not afraid. The Piegans prepare a place for the little boy to sleep. The next morning he is gone. The tribe cannot believe what has just happened...
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