Pages 84-8 are of the essence for understanding the way things work in The Summer Boy. He found himself listening to Callie (a spirit person) who leading the meeting called successively on Hawk, the three head dog, Callie again, Bear and Raven. All of this serves to give Bart an idea of where he is, who he is, and where he's going. It might be considered a mythopoeic version of the Creation:
'In the Before time, before the world had been broken' is perhaps comparable to the Bible account of the 'first couple' before the Fall. It continues with an account of the days of one speech until the Days of Babel and the Flood. The people were so wicked that 'they were set apart into Shadow until such time as there may be a mending. In substance the 'good people' live in Laurel, the 'shadowpeople' are separated.
There is a border-patrol made up of the Riders who try to prevent leaking of shadowfolk, with their corruption into Laurel; however some of the shadowfolk come with a desire to do well
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