Cloud is destined to lead her people. If her grandmother has her way, Cloud will follow in her footsteps and become one the Anishinaabe tribe’s most powerful shaman. But Cloud is the chief’s daughter, two-spirited and strong-willed, and she wants nothing to do with smoke and magic and talking to the spirits with a bunch of old women. Sure and strong, Cloud rides out with her father to participate in a meeting with the white men, who are proving to be frighteningly susceptible to the tricks of the spirit creatures around them. Lost in naive dreams of the future, Cloud wakes to a present drenched in blood. The old ways are changing. The world she knew is gone. And it is up to Cloud to take on responsibilities she has long denied if she wants to keep her people alive. *Cloud is a short story and is meant to be installment 3.5 of the Wendigo Girl Series—a series of novellas/short novels between 40,000-50,000 words with elements of urban fantasy, paranormal romance, and occasional light horror. Mature language, some sexual content, and some graphic violence.