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Show "Apa belonged to my wife," the chief said. "She doesn't belong to me. Apa must leave now that my wife is gone. I want nothing left to remind me of my wife." He picked up the prayer sticks and water. His head was bowed, and a tear dropped from his closed eyes to the ground. "If your father had been a good medicine > man he would have kept my wife alive. You must go," he whispered fiercely. The chief turned to walkaway. "And take your no-good uncle with you. Ahote VP can't stay here. The elders will kick him out anyway." y Chua was stunned. The man he called his grandfather had just turned him away. His clan was gone. The people he counted on couldn't help any more. Where would he go? ^ Chua felt desperate. Then anger rose like a bubbling spring. If they do not want me, I do not want them. He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth. Chua's heart closed with a Clawing Eagle to guard it. CHAPTER 2 Chua knew that a Hopi belonged to a clan according to the birth of his mother. The wife of the chief had found his mother, Apa, in the desert as a small child. She had raised Apa as a daughter, but now the wife of the chief was dead. Apa wasn't bom into t <C4^L the Snake Clan, so they didn't belong^ Mavjrie the chief had rejected them because Chua's father hadn't kept the wife of the chief alive. Chua's father had been a good medicine man. He couldn't keep everyone alive forever. |