ABSTRACT
Now the color was returning to his cheeks, and his lips were moving as if he was speaking to some unseen being. The old man next to him began to chant. His words told the boy that he was now a man, and that he would no longer be permitted to act like a boy. As the young man came back to the everyday world, the old man sang to him, telling him what it meant to be a man. Soon, all five of the watchers had returned, and they
asked the young man to tell them what he had seen. He was one of them now. He was a man who could take up a position of power and prestige among his people.
