Kansas, August 1874. ________________________________ Always on the run. Almost ten years since Sand Creek. Ten years since they butchered my beloved husband and all my family before my eyes. Ten years since I killed the first Ve'hoe when he tried to rape me among the dead and the dying. Ten years since I became a warrior. I found love and hope again and have been fighting back ever since. I married again. I bore and raised three children, Maheo alone knows how. I became a keeper of the Sacred Arrows. My heart has become hard. My life is revenge while the world is falling apart and the spiderpeople are weaving their ever tighter web around us. Our bodies are starving and our hearts are bleak. I must be strong. I must care for the little ones. How much longer? ______________________________________________ Mo-Ca and Good Woman are riding back to the main body of the band led by Medicine Water, Mo-Ca's new husband. They are the only woman warriors among a band of 19 warriors. They are among the last free Southern Cheyennes. There will be more fighting. But there won`t be another summer on the prairy for them. They will die young. ______________________________________________ Characters and circumstances are historical, not ficticious. Why invent things when the real lifes of real people humble all fantasy? Thanks for stopping by.