The Quest Begins/Cliffnotes

These notes are brief, noting major events and minor events that will be of consequence later.

These are intended to be used as a reference for those looking for specific events for re-reading and the likes.

Chapter 1

Kallik's point of view
Nisa tells Kallik and Taqqiq about the legend of Silaluk, while they are unable to leave their shelter due to a severe storm
Nisa teaches Kallik and Taqqiq how to hunt
Nisa successfully kills a seal as it emerges from the ice hole
A male polar bear steals their prey
Kallik, Nisa, and Taqqiq find a dead gray whale and eat it
The ice begins to break away

Chapter 2

Lusa's point of view
Lusa receives a pear from the flat-faces
Yogi fights her for the pear
Lusa and Yogi startle King who yells at them
Ashia tells them to play something else
Yogi and Lusa try to see who can go they longest without moving
Lusa looses and they ask Stella to tell them the story of the Bear Tree
At night, Stella tells Lusa and Yogi the of the cub with a star in his tail

Chapter 3

Toklo's point of view
Toklo almost gets crushed by a firebeast
Toklo and Oka find Tobi some dandelions to eat
Oka finds a dead deer
When they finish, Toklo leads them to a grain spill and a larger bear chases them away
Oka tells them that they must go to the Great Salmon River

Chapter 4

Kallik's point of view
Nisa catches a seal and they share it
The ice breaks and Taqqiq falls into the water and Kallik separates onto an island of ice
Nisa saves them
Nisa, Kallik, and Taqqiq cross a channel one by one but orcas attack
An orca kills Nisa just as she pushes Kallik onto the ice.

Chapter 5

Lusa's point of view
Lusa races Yogi up a tree
King teaches Lusa how to climb trees
Lusa climbs to the top of the tree and sees many animals
Lusa asks Stella them but she says to ask King
Ashia and Lusa play a game pretending to be in the wild

Chapter 6

Toklo's point of view
Oka tells Toklo how to catch a salmon
Toklo wakes up to Tobi dead
Oka yells at Toklo and stays the rest of the day with Tobi

Chapter 7

Kallik's point of view
Kalliks sets off to find Taqqiq
Kallik tries to catch a seal but misses
Kallik finally makes it to land

Chapter 8

Lusa's point of view
Lusa finds Ashia sick and tries to feed her fruit
Lusa show flat-faces that Ashia is sick and they take Ashia away

Chapter 9

Toklo's point of view
Oka tells Toklo they must do the death ritual and bury Tobi
Toklo and Oka arrive at the Gret Salmon River
Shoteka attacks Toklo but Oka fights him off
Toklo tries to fish but gets swept away by the current
Shoteka tries to drown him
Oka leaves Toklo to die

Chapter 10

Kalliks point of view
Kallik finds and eats some berries and catches a frog
Kallik follows other bears in hope they'll lead her to the Burn Sky Gathering Place
Kallik finds some caribou

Chapter 11

Lusa's point of view
Ashia returns and tells Stella, Lusa, Yogi, and King about giaffes, elephants, mountains, and blackpaths.

Chapter 12

Toklo's point of view
Toklo lays down on a rock and watches Oka
A mother bear tells Toklo to go back to Oka
Toklo lays down by his mother and falls asleep
Toklo awakes to find Oka burrying him
Oka claws at Toklo and he runs away

Chapter 13

Kallik's point of view
Kallik finds a dead rabbit
Kallik catches a plover
Kallik reaches a river and crosses it
Belugas arrive and swim with Kallik to the other side
Kallik finds walruses and they case her away

Chapter 14

Lusa's point of view
Oka arrives at the bear bowl
Lusa talks to Oka
King tells Lusa to stay away from Oka
Ashia explains to Lusa why she must stay away from Oka

Chapter 15

Toklo's point of view
Toklo finds two squirrels, a stoat, and many other animals
Toklo climbs the mountain and finds the bear he stole food from
Toklo finds wild onions and eats them
Toklo digs a den and dreams of being the lonely bear

Chapter 16

Kallik's point of view
Kallik meets Purnaq and they go to the Burn Sky Gathering Place, where Kallik tries to find Taqqiq

Chapter 17

Lusa's point of view.
Oka claws one of the feeders, injuring him
Lusa promises Oka that she will go into the wild and find Toklo

Chapter 18

Toklo's point of view.
Toklo tries to catch some salmon, but isn't able to
Toklo finds a mother bear with her two cubs, Fochik and Aylen.
When Fochik catches a salmon, Toklo steals it and the mother bear chases him away.

Chapter 19

Kallik's point of view
Kallik tries to find Taqqiq at the Burn Sky Gathering Place
Kallik leaves on the Claw Path with the other bears to a no-claw area in hope of finding Taqqiq there

Chapter 20

Lusa's point of view
Lusa tells the Yogi, King, Stella, and Ashia that she want to go to the wild.
Lusa tries to escape
Lusa pretends to be sick
The feeders take Lusa to the treatment room in a cage
Lusa escapes from the cage and starts traveling toward the forest

Chapter 21

Toklo's point of view
Toklo follow's the river to the valley
In the valley, Toklo hears gun shots and flat-faces screaming
Toklo awakes to find a flat-face point a metal stick at him
Toklo flees and another cub follows him
The cub gets shot in the leg and Toklo helps him escape
They stop for the night to rest, but when Toklo awakes, the cub is gone

Chapter 22

Kallik's point of view.
Kallik follows Purnaq on the Claw Path
Kallik stops for the night and when she awaks, Purnaq had already left
Kallik follows his scent toward a row of houses, where she hears gunfire
Kallik smells food and goes into a flat-face den
Before Kallik can take the meat, a flat-face tranqulizes her

Chapter 23

Lusa's point of view.
Lusa travels through the flat-face denning area
Lusa climbs a fence to enter a backyard where she meets a cat
Lusa stops at a house to check the metal cans for food
Lusa opens the first bin and finds potato sticks and other foods
When Lusa opens the second can, the lid pops off, making a loud crash that alerted the flat-face
The flat-face lets his dog out, which chases Lusa away.

Chapter 24

Toklo's point of view.
Toklo awakes to see a flat-face cub standing over him
The flat-face cub introduces himself
Toklo agrees to let Ujurak travel with him

Chapter 25

Kallik's point of view
Kallik awakes in an inclosure with another bear named Nanuk
Nanuk tells Kallik the perpose they were at the inclosure

Chapter 26

Lusa's point of view.
Lusa looks at the trees to find bear spirits
Lusa climbs a tree, where she stay for the night
When Lusa awakes, she finds a buzzy tree and eats the honey from inside.
The bees that live in the buzzy tree sting Lusa away.
Lusa comes across some blackberries.
A brown bear comes along and snarls that Lusa is in his territery.
The brown bear pins Lusa down and tells her that she's his prey.

Chapter 27

Toklo's point of view
Toklo and Ujurak are climbing up a mountain
Ujurak explains how he is following a star, as if he is drawn to it
The bears go to sleep
When Toklo wakes up, Ujurak is looking for worms
Ujurak asks Toklo about his mother, but he is reluctant to answer
Ujurak continues to ask lots of questions, annoying Toklo
Ujurak accidentially morphs into a bird, but quickly morphs back
Toklo and Ujurak attempt to catch salmon at a river, but Ujurak keeps messing up, accidentially morphing into a salmon
Toklo, trying to save Ujurak, tells a group of nearby bears not to eat the salmon, saying that they are poisoned
After Ujurak morphs back, Toklo says he cannot travel with him anymore and goes on by himself
Toklo cannot manage to go by himself and goes to take care of Ujurak to make sure he doesn't get hurt

Chapter 28

Kallik's point of view
Nanuk wakes up Kallik, saying it is time to go
Nanuk tells Kallik the no-claws will put them to sleep and put them back on the ice
Kallik wakes up again to find she and Nanuk are on a metal bird high in the air
The bird passes through a cloud, and Nanuk tries to calm Kallik down
The bird crashes into the ice with flames and everything goes black
Kallik awakes to find Nanuk hurt
As the white she-bear dies, she tells Kallik to go to the place where the spirits dance
Kallik thanks her for taking care of her and sets off to the Endless Ice

Chapter 29

Lusa's point of view
Lusa wrenches herself free and climbs a tree
The grizzly leaves and Lusa decides to travel at night
Trying to avoid grizzly territory, Lusa reflects on how she'll never see the Bear Bowl again
Lusa reaches a lake and wallows in the water
She stays by the three lakes for five sunrises, feasting on berries
Lusa reaches the dead forest at the end of the lakes
Eventually buds reappear on the trees and Lusa recognizes it as a living forest
She settles down in a hollow by some tree roots, which look oddly like Stella
Saying goodnight to "Stella", Lusa wonders how she will ever be able to find the lost cub if the wild is so big

Chapter 30

Toklo's point of view
Toklo, with help from Ujurak as an eagle, kill and eat a mountain goat
They travel into the dead forest, where Ujurak accidently turns into a hare
Toklo chases after him to find a small black bear had caught him
Ujurak transforms back into a bear, confusing the black bear
Toklo wants to scare her away, but Ujurak stops her
The black bear cub reveals herself to be Lusa, and that she has been looking for Toklo

v • d • e Seekers Cliffnotes
The Original Series	The Quest Begins • Great Bear Lake • Smoke Mountain • The Last Wilderness • Fire in the Sky • Spirits in the Stars
Return to the Wild	Island of Shadows • The Melting Sea • River of Lost Bears • Forest of Wolves • The Burning Horizon

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