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a harvest that they forgot what harvest was. But now they knew what the descolada had stolen from them long before. What had been lost was found again. And those who had been hungry without knowing the name of their hunger, they were fed.
Chapter 10 -- "THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN YOUR BODY"
"Oh, Father! Why did you turn away? In the hour when I triumphed over evil, why did you recoil from me?"
-- from The God Whispers of Han Qing-jao
Malu sat with Peter, Wang-mu, and Grace beside a bonfire near the beach. The canopy was gone, and so was much of the ceremony. There was kava, but, despite the ritual surrounding it, in Wang- mu's opinion they drank it now as much for the pleasure of it as for its holiness or symbolism.
At one point Malu laughed long and loud, and Grace laughed too, so it took her a while to interpret. "He says that he cannot decide if the fact that the god was in you, Peter, makes you holy, or the fact that she left proves you to be unholy."
Peter chuckled-- for courtesy, Wang-mu knew-- while Wang-mu herself did not laugh at all.
"Oh, too bad," said Grace. "I had hoped you two might have a sense of humor."
"We do," said Peter. "We just don't have a Samoan sense of humor."
"Malu says the god can't stay forever where she is. She's found a new home, but it belongs to others, and their generosity won't last forever. You felt how strong Jane is, Peter--"
"Yes," said Peter softly.
"Well, the hosts that have taken her in-- Malu calls it the forest net, like a fishing net for catching trees, but what is that? --anyway he says that they are so weak compared to Jane that whether she wills it or not, in time their bodies will all belong to her unless she finds somewhere else to be her permanent home."
Peter nodded. "I know what he's saying. And I would have agreed, until the moment that she actually invaded me, that I would gladly give up this body and this life, which I thought I hated. But I found out, with her chasing me around, that Malu was right, I don't hate my life, I want very