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|title=Soul Eater

|author=Michelle Paver

|date=September 2006

|isbn=1842551728

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Living six thousand years ago, after the Ice Age but before the spread of agriculture, Torak and his people understand the natural world. They revere the animals they hunt and never waste an ounce of prey. A deer provides them not only with food, but also with clothes, water carriers, shoes, rope, even needles. Torak and his people also understand spirituality. They see the sacred in the seasons and the cycle of the moon. Torak sees these things even more, for he is a Spirit Walker. He can communicate with animals. He can even, in extremis, live inside them. He can send his three souls to inhabit wild creatures and exist with them, side by side. Torak has a pack-brother, Wolf, his comrade and his guide. Torak and Wolf are bound by ties so fundamental that nothing can keep them apart.