Her mother took a foreigner from the north during her season on a hormonal whim and the pale girl she bore three moons later was a visible reminder to all of her indiscretion. Their relationship was strained as Chumanii grew, the child scorned by their clan for her bastard status and different coloration.

In the months following her daughter's first birthday, Anpona perished from a rattling cough -- leaving the girl alone, even amongst her own people. The young spiritualist spoke with the ancestors and meditated, hoping vision quests might provide the answers she so desperately sought. She determined to stay and work to impress the elders of the tribe, until the day came that they could overlook her conception and white fur.

But when a young Brave began pursuing her affections, his perseverance eventually tending towards aggression and possession, the woman became increasingly uncomfortable. Feeling unsafe in the only home she had ever known, she provoked the elders when they refused to grant their blessing for Chumanii to depart from the tribe. Stripped of her clan name and branded with the mark of a traitor, the girl was cast out -- bound for the west, deciding to simply follow the horizon to the place where the sun rises.