I think it's a bit too late for those bears. [Sorrel chokes on his laugh.] But there's this whole prayer you're supposed to say, and you have to skin it in this specific order and all. I'd bet anything Cyril still does it whenever he takes meat out in the field, even only in his head.

They're stories, but... they're our stories. Even if they never happened that way, or never happened at all, we make them real by treating them as real.