So his brother-in-law took him into a wood and said, “Come hither aside and see what will happen. You are now about to leave the earth, and you have no friends of your own people to note your passing or to mourn your departure. But there are other people who will wish to speak with you. I will make myself invisible, for these people cannot look upon me and live.”

Wakinyan vanished, and Tahince-Iheya stood alone.

Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems, and the Sun Dance Opera, p. 60