When morning comes, Amy and Cora wake up. It was early in the morning. Cora stretches and listens as certain bones in her body pop and crack.

Amy looks over towards Cora “you sound like you need a tune-up.”

“I haven’t slept on the ground since I went camping with Talking Rabbit,” Cora remembers the first time she slept out under the stars while training.

“Isn’t he related to Falling Moon?” Amy knew she has heard that name before.

“That’s his cousin. His mother and father are famous Native American actors that give back to the reservation. They are working with a group out of California that establishes wells for the people in third world nations.”

“Another problem the government created during World War two with their Uranium mines polluting the ground water around here.” Amy knew about the radioactive water in the ground.

“True, but this group is digging deeper and bringing up clean fresh water that is powered by solar panels. That way our people will finally have fresh water and don’t have to travel far to get it or have the water lady come out to fill up jugs and containers.” Cora met the woman who drove the water tank truck on the reservation. There were still areas on the reservation that didn’t have running water or power.

“The stories of what our people have been through and what I have seen for myself. The government should be punished for what they have done.” Amy was filled with anger over how her people were being treated.

“That’s been tried and look where it has led us to.” Cora knew you couldn’t fight the government, except in the courts.

Amy just sighs “I can't help myself. I carry a chip on my shoulder for what the government has done to me and our people.”

“Don’t worry about it. When the time is right, things will change. Our immediate problem is stopping the border walls from being erected on our land and doing something about those citizens taking matters into their own hands.”

“You mean like us?” Amy looks at Cora when she says that.

“We are protecting our people. They are just ignorant and hateful. There’s a difference.” Cora knew what they were doing was for their people and their history.

“Let’s see if we can talk with whoever is in charge of the border wall.” Cora figures if they talk to the person who runs the border guards down here, maybe they will listen to them.

“Forget about talking to the commander of the border patrol. He’s a self-righteous asshole that believes in the bullshit coming from Washington D.C.” Amy tried talking with him and he told her to go to hell.

An evil grin appears on Cora’s face “let’s see if he’ll tell that to me.” As Cora puts her mask on.

Amy feels the mystical energies from the mask as it infuses Cora with power from their ancestors. She watches as the wooden mask becomes
flesh and fur. She could smell the difference in Cora’s scent as well.

“If you insist. Follow me.” Amy starts walking towards the shadows. She disappears inside it.

Cora follows Amy into the shadows and appears next to her in a void filled with stars. She looks at Amy “where are we?”

“Everywhere and nowhere.” Amy gives Cora the same explanation her father gave her.

Cora turns and looks at Amy “no really, where are we?”

“We’re between places. Didn’t you already know about this place?” Amy looks at Cora with a puzzled look on her face.

“No! The spirits or shaman I trained under. Never told me about this place.” Cora looks around her and everywhere she looked were bright and dim stars, while she and Amy stood in a void.

“The only way you can come here is either you’re a child of our gods or like you. Your mask infuses you with spiritual energy.” Amy starts walking towards one of the specks of light.

Cora follows behind her as they walk towards the light. She watches as Amy disappears into the light. She walks into the light and almost bumps into Amy as she exists.

She notices they were no longer where they started off at. They stood next to a building. She looks around and notices they were not in Arizona anymore.

“Where are we?” Cora looks toward Amy for an explanation.

“CBP Headquarters Washington D.C.” Amy figures they would go directly to the big boss instead and try to get something done.

Cora removes her mask and put it in her satchel slung across her shoulder. She follows Amy inside the building and towards a receptionist's desk.They noticed behind the desk was a young woman wearing a nice suit.

“How can I help you, young ladies?”

“We would like to talk with the person in charge about the border wall.” Cora pulls her Private Investigator badge out and lays it on the counter.

Holly looks at the two women. One was dressed in a skintight black outfit that hugged her body. She was wearing a pair of black knee-high Moccasins. There was a knife on her side attached to a black leather belt and a tomahawk tucked into the belt. The other woman was wearing blue jeans and some sort of tan color shirt that looked to be of some western design.

She also wore a pair of light brown moccasins as well but had no weapons present. She had a light color cowboy hat on as well. She was a little taller than the woman dressed in a black outfit.

Holly looks at the badge laying on the counter and notices it was a Private Investigator badge.

“Let me see if Mr. Colons is in, ladies.”

Holly picks the phone up and dials Mr. Colons' extension. After a few minutes, his secretary Denise Steele.

“Hello Mr. Colons officer, how can I help you?” Denise notices the call was from downstairs.

“Denise, I have two young ladies here that would like to talk to Mr. Colons. One of them is a Private Investigator from Arizona.”

“Did they say what they would like to talk to Mr. Colons about?” Denise wonders what a Private Investigator from Arizona is doing here.

Holly looks at Amy and Cora “what is your visit about?”

“The border wall you are building on Native American land,” Amy answered before Cora could.

“Denise, it’s about the border wall being built on Native American land.” Holly was looking at the two women and notices one of them had
golden color eyes like a wolf.

“Well, unfortunately, Mr. Colons has a busy schedule and he is unable to see them today. Have them make an appointment and we’ll get in touch with them.”

“Tell her if she doesn’t let us see him today, there will be trouble,” Amy says to Holly with a slight growl to her words.

“Oh boy.” Cora heard the growl in Amy’s voice. She has a feeling this was going to turn into trouble.

“Denise, they want to see him now.” Holly got a little nervous when she heard the growl from the one woman.

“Well, he’s busy.” Denise wasn’t going to budge.

“Enough of this.” Amy runs over to the stairs and starts running up them towards the floor.

Cora puts her mask on and starts running behind her. This was going to cause all sorts of problems. The two of them sprint up the stairs in no time. When they come to the floor where Mr. Colons' office was located. The door was locked and you had to have a security card to get in.

“Allow me.” Cora walks over to the door and twists the knob. And pull the door open.

Amy walks through and into a hallway. She sniffs the air and picks up several scents.

“I can’t determine which is his scent.” Amy looks around.

“Don’t worry, I have this.” Cora starts walking toward Mr. Colons' office.

When she walks into the office, there were several people and all of them look scared. They saw the woman that was named Denise. They start walking towards her “where is Mr. Colons?”

She points towards his office door.

“Thank you.” Amy walks up to the door and opens it.

Cora walks in behind her and closes the door. She takes her mask off and put it in her pouch. Both of them look at an older man that looked to be in his late thirties. He looked to be of mixed race and was wearing an expensive suit.

“What can I do for you ladies?” Mr. Colons looks at two Native American women standing before him. He notices one had golden color eyes like a wolf and the other one had normal eyes. He saw her take a mask off.

“You can stop the construction of the border wall on Native American land. You are destroying artifacts, and desecrating the graves of our ancestors. You are also destroying the ecology in that area with the construction of your border walls.”

“I’m sorry ladies, but there is nothing I can do to stop it. Those walls are necessary for the protection of this country. We are trying to stop drugs and human smuggling and trafficking from coming into and out of this country.” Mr. Colons has gone over this with several Native American tribal leaders and explained that the security of this nation comes first.

Amy balls her hands into a fist and tries to remain calm. She was getting pissed and knew she needed to not strike out in anger.

“Mr. Colons you said that you’re trying to protect this nation. Does that include the people who live here?” Cora looks at him.

“Yes, why?” Mr. Colons looks at the smaller woman dressed in a skintight suit and carrying weapons.

“Because for every construction company you send to build on Native American land, we will destroy their equipment. If they fight back, we will defend ourselves. Is the possibility of bloodshed worth the problems that will develop?” Cora let her eyes flash red.

“You do know we will protect those men.”

“I know, and to tell you the truth. You are facing two people who never have to sleep or eat if they chose not to. That land is our heritage and we will protect it with every fiber of our being. Just stop the construction of the wall there and there will be no trouble. Continue and there will be trouble like you have never experienced.” Cora’s eyes flash again and the air in the office heats up and dust twirls around in a cyclone.

“How are you doing that?” Mr. Colons has never seen anything like that.

“That’s not me, Mr. Colons. It’s my ancestors and they wanted you to know what is to come.” Cora could feel the power from her mask pulsing inside of her, even with her not wearing it.

Mr. Colons looks at both women “I’ll see what I can do. How can I contact you?”

Cora removes a card from her satchel and hands it to Mr. Colons “my cellphone number is on there, Mr. Colons.”

Mr. Colons accepts the business card. He didn’t think anyone still used them.

“Does your friend speak for you as well?” As he looks at Amy.

“Yes.” Amy turns her head towards the noise outside Mr. Colons' office door.

“It seems you ladies might be in a little trouble with your actions.”

“Nothing I haven’t been through before.” Cora turns around and put her mask on.

Amy shifts into her wolf form. As she follows next to Cora. She prepares herself as Cora opens the office door. They spotted at least six police officers out in the office with their weapons drawn.

“Put your weapons away. No one was hurt.” Cora puts some power behind her words to compel them to do as she says.

Some of the men start doing what she tells them. Others were fighting her command. She puts more power behind the command to compel them to obey. Once everyone’s weapon was put away. Amy leads them out of the office and into a dark corner. She walks into it, followed by Cora.

When they come back out, they are back at Amy’s campsite. Cora looks at Amy as she removes her mask “can you take things in there with you?”

“Yes, but you need to hold onto it while you are in there or it will through to somewhere else.” Amy has made that mistake a few times and had to go and find the items she dropped.

Cora removes her waterskin from her satchel and takes a drink from it. She hands it to Amy “here, takes a sip. You’ll like it.”

Amy accepts the waterskin and takes a nice gulp from it. The water coming out of it was cold and fresh. She looks at Amy “how is this possible?”

“It was a gift from the spirits when they gave me what I am wearing. Now, we need to work on the other problem with those citizens trespassing on our ancestor’s land.”

“Do you think Mr. Colons will do anything?” Amy looks at Cora.

“I don’t know, but the spirits wanted him to understand what he and the government are getting into. They did something with me, I never knew they could.” Cora has never done what she did.

“How long have you been their warrior?”

“Not very long and mostly I have gone after people stealing and selling our artifacts from the reservation.” Cora takes a piece of jerked buffalo meat out to munch on. She hands a piece to Amy.

“Thanks.” Amy bites into the jerked meat and likes it.

“Let’s go and see this leader of this group.”

“Okay.” Amy walks over to the four-wheeler they took the other day.

Cora joins her and the two of them head towards the leader of the border guard citizens.