Homecoming

Tell me who I am. Tell me where I belong. I am a woman without a name, without a home.  For the first time, Eyes-of-the-Sky prayed to the white man's God. One look in the mirror told her she was not a Comancheyet she remembered no other life. She watched the whites who had taken her in after her "rescue," the mother, Hattie, and her handsome son, Joe, and wondered what her life had been like before her childhood abduction. She looked at Joe, who had suffered much and forgave little, and knew longing in her heart. But questions remained: What am I? Who am I?