Etzli didn't embrace Pampaa right away. First, she had to touch his face, to make sure he was really there. Really real. Really alive.

"How?" She tugged at his scruffy beard, amazed. "How in the..."

"It's been quite a day," he smiled.

"But, I..." Etzli tried to hold back her emotions, but they crashed over her as she fought to get the words out. "I watched you die."

"Oh, my child, I am so sorry you had to see that." Pampaa wiped at his ...