Summary

“Road of Darkness” is not dated and exists, again, outside of time. Auda and McAlester drive through the mountains together. McAlester explains that he started trading with the English to earn their people all the power that the colonizers had without submitting to their rule. He says it was the same with the casino and his money laundering. He says he always had the best interest of the tribe at heart, but his intentions led him down the wrong path. He tells her that he killed his Red Fox wife because she planned to make a witch potion and feed it to Anoleta. He was saving her life, just as he tried to save her life after Haya pushed him into the fire and his men beat the woman to death in front of his dying eyes. Auda remembers the moment before she...