Editing Timeline (section)

===Over 25,000 years ago===
* [[Mara Angnakak]] comes to [[North America]] as an infant on a reed raft.<ref name="Mara"/>
* Many [[Others]] are stirred to existence by the first human colonists, joining those that were already there.<ref name="Mara">“The town will fall, just as it rose, two hundred and fifteen years ago.  Before that, I was here.  I watched people come and go. Settlements rose and fell. Not many, not large, but a number.  Before that, I was here.”<br><br>“Been here a while,” I said.<br><br>Her eyes narrowed. “The man and woman who brought me into this world came to this place on a raft of reeds, and I was so small I had to be carried. We traveled from the west to here over my lifetime, following the deer and the hunt.  When my parents passed, I stayed. I was one of the ''first'' to lay claim here, and I have never given it up.”<br><br>“Over the water to the west?” Peter murmured.  “The lake?”<br><br>“Ocean,” Tiff said, her voice almost a whisper.<br><br>“I nurtured those who followed after me or passed through, offered them my hand and my amassed knowledge, so they could be communities, a ''people''.  Many are ''mine''.  Hundreds of years of work.  I saw things follow in our wake, things stirred into existence by our ''being''.  Your Others, echoing our intelligence, echoing our pride and fear and pain, to join those Others that were here before the first people.  I am familiar with them all.  I know what ''man'' is, and I know that your love and law and fairness are ''invention''. Invention younger than I am." <br>[...]<br>“You know the power of your repetition.  Three times, you do something.  Three times you bind it to make it so.  Agreed?”<br><br>“That’s the gist of it.”<br><br>“Invention.  But at the core, there is truth.  I have not counted, but I can still be utterly confident in saying that I have woken up in the same place for more than nine million of your days.  I have gathered, hunted, cooked and eaten the same foods on those same days.  I have been born, bled for the first time, and been reborn on more than one thousand occasions.  The wheel of life and death turns forward and I am an indelible part of it, especially here.  This is a pattern, this is my ritual.  Now tell me, what is the truth of this.  What does it make me?” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/12/16 Excerpt] from [[Sine Die 14.6]]</ref>