Maggie escapes with Kai and brings him to Grace Goodacre, a woman who runs a bar far from town and who hates the lawmen as much as Maggie does. Thinking Tah is dead, Maggie and Kai try to investigate, but Maggie is forced to kill the lawman Longarm after he discovers Kai.

Hastiin, the leader of the Thirsty Boys, delays Kai and Maggie, but eventually they break away and discover that Grandpa Tah’s place is on fire. Still, the two head off together on their new quest, although they are stopped in the road by a gang of mercenaries called During the night, Maggie is terrorized by a dream in which Kai calls her a monster, and she takes her anger out on Kai in the morning.

Before Coyote leaves, he tells Maggie that Neizghání was never good for her and that Kai would be a better partner and lover. While they talk, Maggie flashes back to her 16th birthday, when her grandmother was murdered by a yee naaldlǫǫshii (witch) and she was rescued by Neizghání. Kai and Coyote become acquainted while Coyote narrates the inception of the Sixth World, when the Dinétah Holy People walk among humans. Coyote teases Maggie about her loss of Neizghání but then gives her a new quest to fetch the breath of Níłch’i, the sacred wind that first gave life to humans. Although they penetrate the library and find some research on the tsé naayéé’, Kai and Maggie are forced to return to Maggie’s trailer.Īt her trailer, Maggie finds Mai’ii, also known as Coyote, a dangerous Dinétah trickster god that is fond of her. After evading Longarm, they visit a library, only to discover that the surrounding town is swarming with ch’į́įdii, the ghostly residues of tainted dead. Newly partnered despite Maggie’s reluctance, Maggie and Kai head out to research the tsé naayéé’ but are stopped by a local lawman nicknamed Longarm who hates Maggie. Although Tah is unfamiliar with this monster, he introduces Maggie to his actual grandson Kai, a fancily dressed medicine man in training who does recognize the monster. After killing the girl (out of mercy) and the monster, Maggie brings the monster’s head to her honorary Grandpa Tah, a well-liked monster expert. When Maggie travels to the mountains tracking the girl, she finds the girl, barely alive but doomed to die because she has been tainted by her cannibalistic monster kidnapper. She visits the Dinétah town of Lukachukai, where a family hopes that Maggie, with her supernatural clan powers, can find their lost daughter. In the near future, after the world as we know it-the Fifth World-was destroyed by a flood, ushering in the Sixth World, Maggie Hoskie, a 20-year-old Dinétah (Navajo) woman, is haunted after being abandoned by her heroic and divine mentor Neizghání, whom she still loves.

Trail of lightning rebecca roanhorse