[That's true. Maybe it wasn't the same, but of course it wouldn't be. Not after Eagle's rejection in the Spirit World, or losing control over his shapeshifting in the Dream. Certainly not after the Summoning Stones. But "different" doesn't mean "gone". He hadn't been cut off from the natural world, nor had he truly lost those connections. They were still with him, just in other ways.
But in rediscovering that, he was forced to confront what might be the bigger source of pain in all this.]
The one thing I still can't do. . . is be seen as one.
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[That's true. Maybe it wasn't the same, but of course it wouldn't be. Not after Eagle's rejection in the Spirit World, or losing control over his shapeshifting in the Dream. Certainly not after the Summoning Stones. But "different" doesn't mean "gone". He hadn't been cut off from the natural world, nor had he truly lost those connections. They were still with him, just in other ways.
But in rediscovering that, he was forced to confront what might be the bigger source of pain in all this.]
The one thing I still can't do. . . is be seen as one.