Kira’s father, Christopher, was supposed to serve on the Council of Guardians, the group that controls the village, but wild beasts killed him in a hunting accident before Kira was born.
Kira has a lame leg when she was born, the villagers wanted to leave her in the Field to die, but Katrina insisted that she keep Kira, because she recognizes that her daughter is bright and good with her hands.
Kira drags her dead mother to the Field and spends four days watching her spirit leave. Katrina dies in her cott, or cottage, where she lived with Kira.
Kira lives in a village where the sick and weak are dragged off to die in the Field of the Living after they die, someone is required to watch the spirit leave the dead body for the next four days. The novel begins with the death of Katrina, the mother of a girl named Kira.
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