The known history of ceramics is over 30,000 years old. The outcome of man's discovery of the properties of fired clay opened a technological portal that remains open today.Acknowledging there are many excellent books on ceramics, Palul has written series of stories in a historical novel format, showing unique characters actually experiencing clay in their lives - making discoveries and technical advances, creating objects in their times and places - books that are not only interesting to read, but technically informative and educational.In Book 4, Axora, a young Olmec girl, escapes from the long line of dirt haulers for the huge Grand Pyramid and finds herself wounded by a jaguar and lost in a bamboo forest. After being rescued by stone cutters and taken to the village of Two Waters, she is healed by a medicine woman who takes her to El Punta, the local shaman, for his opinion regarding her jaguar wounds. This leads to a surprising change in the teenager's life.