Instinct

It should have been a bigger shock to Laura to learn of the blood running in her veins, but for some reason it made sense. So much in her life had gone wrong and the rest was shrouded in secrecy. She knew few members of her family outside of her brothers and sisters. The rest were scattered about or dead. When she had inquired about her ancestors as a child, she had hushed and told to never ask that question again. She couldn’t understand any of it. The other children on the reservation she lived on talked freely about their bloodline. She knew nothing except they had married into this tribe. That made her an outsider even though her own father, mother, and grandfather had been full-blood members of the tribe. Because of her grandmother and the heritage she would not discuss, Laura was never fully accepted.