Once and forever, when time was a whisper, the Niłchʼi Dineʼé (air spirit people) lived in the realm of the first world. This first world, the dark world, floated like an island surrounded by water. The air spirit people were mist people, insect people. Ants, dragonflies, locusts and beetles lived among them in a shadowy existence. Like the alchemist’s prima materia, the dark world swirled with the chaos of infinite possibility...