"He's a wild animal, remember? His wildness is something he knows without even knowing it. It's in his bones, in his blood. Like a memory[.]"
Peter reminds Xan that Duma can't live among humans forever
"People go when they are ready to go, not when you are. We are all just travelers on the same river: Grandparents, parents, sons and daughters. We all have our time on the river; we do what we can before we disappear."
Ripkuna to Xan on human mortality
There are things that you know without knowing. For Duma, it was his wildness. For Rip, his family. For me, it was my dad. Everything he was, everything he believed in, is now part of me. I was taking Duma home, but he was taking me somewhere, too. Finding Duma's true home brought me back to mine, and showed me that love doesn't stop when time passes, or you live in different places, or somebody's gone. That's how it was with me and Duma.
Xan's closing narration
