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  In this chapter, Li contemplates the death of a baby whose mother joined the tribe before the last rains. Where did she come from, how, and why? Li realizes that these thoughts have no answers, unless you become as "other" as death itself. She moves on, still wondering about the small baby, and goes to forage for food in hunger. While she is searching in the ocean, she spots a school of fish which are frantically swimming away from some predators - dolphins. Li quickly snatches one of the fish and chews on it, delighted  only to realize that one dolphin stays behind to take her food. A friendly relationship develops between the two unlikely strangers after the exchange of food, and the girl and the dolphin play and frolic together in the sunlit ocean until Li reaches her tribe's shore.