The haze from land-clearing fires still clung to the air like a thin blanket reluctant to leave, even though the Tuesday sun already stood high in the dry-season sky. He rode his black motorcycle, a mask covering half his face, passing rows of coconut palms, banana trees, cassava, areca palms, wild grass, and weeds that stood silent as witnesses to a journey repeated hundreds of times. The Garden of Paradise waited, the place where every day he chose to burn himself in order to kindle others....