The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of graphic violence, death, racism, child death, suicidal ideation, and animal cruelty and death.

Good Stab tells the story of the first soldier he ever killed. When he was still young, his band had captured a soldier who was severely injured. Good Stab was made to watch over him while the hunters went away. The soldier freed himself and tried to strangle Good Stab, but Good Stab used an arrow to kill the soldier, scarring his face in the process. This was how Good Stab got his name. 

Although he had been killed on the Backbone, Good Stab reawakens in the snow sometime after the storm has passed. His skin is burned, signaling that someone tried to cremate him and his companions. He dashes down the mountain on all fours. With heightened senses, he can suddenly track animals by scent. He looks up at the sun, and its brightness overwhelms him. He follows the scent of a soldier, who turns out to be the one who killed him and the Cat Man. Good Stab drinks the soldier’s blood and sucks his bone marrow, restoring himself, until the soldier is dead.