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Chapter 1
    6 Months ago -
    It had been a hard couple of weeks for the sisters. Hell, it had been a hard year thinking back on it, what with the sisters parents dying so unexpectedly in an auto accident just over a year ago. Since then the sisters had been through a lot of new experiences – a lot of crying, yelling, fighting and compromising too. And that just covers what had been going on here at home between her and Sonya. It was Lynda that had been suddenly thrust into the role of head of household – a lot of new responsibility now sat firmly upon her small shoulders.
    She didn’t want to think another minute about all the legal stuff,  financial crap and the seemingly endless phone calls and letters from people with their greedy hands out wanting to pick at her piece by piece, penny by penny, during this terrible time of loss and evolution. Lynda was glad the weekend was over though. Since she became a bartender at the local dive on the weekends she was always happy to see Monday morning come – a strange feeling since in the past she had always dreaded it’s arrival. Funny how things can change so drastically, seemingly in an instant.
    There were just too many drunk pain in the rears to deal with on a regular basis for her though so she only opted for the weekend shifts. Weekends were just about too much for her as it was, and her hot temper could get her into trouble in an instant if she didn’t watch it. One too many comments about her boobs, butt or drink pouring skills and she was ready to come out swinging. And most drunks in these parts had no idea exactly what they were risking in pissing her off one time too many.
    But it was a steady check, tips were fair and for the time being they needed the extra money, so she was thankful for it. If she could just find the will to hang in there a little longer she hoped things would keep on changing for the better. Her sister Sonya had just recently finished taking some classes at the local community college, but just didn’t really seem too interested in anything in particular. Even though they were only six years apart in age, it may as well have been a thousand – they were just so different in so many ways it was almost hard for Lynda to believe they were really kin sometimes.
    Up until her parents accident last year Lynda had been out on her own, working in the “real world”, for about 3 years as a marketing wiz in an advertising agency two states over. She was self sufficient, a hard worker and surprisingly good at what she did given the fact that she only had “on the job” training. But she was a natural at it they soon realized and fought to keep her on. Her degree in college had been in music performance if you could believe it, and she had gotten the job at the ad agency, completely by chance, through contact with a close college friend.
    When she got the word about the accident, though, she rushed right home as fast as she could. She knew Sonya needed her and never realized what other responsibilities would soon fall upon her tiny shoulders. She never really understood what kind of financial bind her folks were in – they had never said a word. As far as she knew they were doing fine. That is until after the funeral, about two months later, when all the “Final” notices started flooding in from places all over the world it seemed.
    Her once large and powerful family clan had dwindled dramatically over her own short lifetime. When she was a young child she remembered having relatives scattered all over North America – primarily on the west coast and up into Canada and even up into the Alaskan wilderness. But she also had fond memories of visiting cousins as far away as New York state and even down into the Appalachian mountains one humid summer. Needless to say the peoples of the Yukonias were once powerful and many.
    And as it were, the women of the tribe were responsible for “hosting” the tribes magic. It was always passed from mother to