Firekeeper’s Daughter

When Daunis collapses, she has a near-death experience. She spends a moment of time crossing over into another life, where she not only sees Lily but knows that Lily is with her. Daunis doesn’t have to say anything because Lily knows what she would want to say. Lily places a floral necklace over Daunis’s head, while circles of other women surround them, some with pansies for faces, and spin until they lift into the air.

Daunis wakes to the sound of her mother’s voice and the feeling of her mother applying Chapstick or lipstick to her lips, just like she did to GrandMary. 

When Daunis wakes up fully, her mother tells her that GrandMary has died and that Teddie is back home taking care of things so she can stay with Daunis. Daunis’s liver was lacerated in the car accident, and then further damaged when she jumped Stormy. She had been unconscious for three days and needs to stay in the hospital at the University of Michigan for at least another week. Daunis tells her mother that Uncle David was helping the FBI, and that it seems like his death may have been foul play on Dana Firekeeper’s part.