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Whoever had taken enough time to bury their dead had also drawn a symbol in the sand of the mound. Brutha half-expected it to be a turtle, but the desert wind had not quite eroded the crude shape of a pair of horns.

“I don’t understand that,” said Om. “They don’t reallybelieve I exist, but they go and put something like that on a grave.”

“It’s hard to explain. I think it’s because they believe theyexist,” said Brutha. “It’s because they’re people, and so was he.”

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods