People Of The Sky: Clare Bell

Kesbe Temiya was making a special delivery flight millions of miles long. A collector of rare craft on the planet Oneway had bought a WWII C-47 transport that she'd reconditioned centuries after it was marooned on an iceberg. After the starship dropped her and her cargo on the planet, bad weather of the Barranca Madre canyon forced her down on a plateau far from her destination. Only with the help of a mysterious figure riding an alien flying creature could she make an emergency landing. Her rescuer was a member of a long-vanished Pueblo Indian colony which had come to Oneway following the prophecy of the the Blue Star Kachina to live the old ways, away from technology and white man. Kesbe hereself was of Pueblo blood, but here she was an interloper. Only by becoming a member of the People of the Sky could she secure their help in getting the Gooney Berg half way across the planet. This involves a ritual that will strip away her modernity - of it doesn't kill her. Cover art by Maren.