Sandy Vrooman
Mehwanomi, born to the Meskwaki (Fox) people, was the daughter of a much feared sorceress. Shunned by the tribe because of her Mother’s reputation, she lived in her departed Mother's lodge on the shore of a large lake. Accustomed to solitude, she felt no loss, but her people, pushed from their ancestral lands by European invaders, did feel loss, acutely. They felt betrayed by her mother as well.
During her solitary time, a white man stumbled into Mehwanomi’s lodge, feverish, incoherent, and hungry. She gave him some willow bark tea and a simple broth until he recovered enough to feast on her acorn and rabbit stew.
His thanks was to woo and seduce her, providing a need for closeness and affection she had never felt before. Mehwanomi thought that anything that felt that good was a gift of the Manitos. He convinced her he was also Meskwaki, one of her people, because part of his name, Jean Claude Reynard, was fox in his language.
Jean Claude, a seasoned trickster, taught her how to experience the ultimate satisfaction in their relations and how best to reciprocate. When he left, she followed. For the first time in her life there was something she did not want do without.
Jean Claude had a lodge bigger than anything she could imagine, in a village so large; Mehwanomi thought it must have no end. He taught her how to function in his world and even provided her with a servant, a Japanese woman named Kitsune, also a fox.
The two women rapidly became close. Kitsune further enlightening Mehwanomi in the lore of fox magics, something her Mother neglected to do. When Jean Claude tired of the two women and left them for new adventures, they felt betrayed. Through the power of suggestion, they brought Jean Claude's shadydealingsto the attention of the authorities.
When he was hauled away, Mehwanomi felt a longing for the forest and convinced Kitsune to travel back with her. The village had been attacked, burned and abandoned and her people moved further from their ancestral home. Even though the village had shunned Mehwanoi, she felt a cord to her past had been severed. Kitsune suggested they go back to town and try their luck.
Relying on fox logic and the skills Jean Claude had taught them, they formed a business partnership. Slowly and surely by creating and collecting gambling debts, and selling other favors, they became very powerful women. Both vowed to never take in or be taken in by a hungry man again.
First published: August, 2010
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