Vision quest

Born in Muddy Waters, Cocopa on Vinland-7, Kiss-the-sky attended the Quechan Lyceum at Limbic Gulch. In 1908, she received a PhD in electrodynamics from the Cocopa Medicine Lodge for Advanced Physics.

At the outbreak of the Third Apache War she accepted a lieutenancy in the Brigade of Engineers. Captured in 1910, she remained a prisoner of war until the capture of Beating Heart in 1912.

After the war, she returned to a lecturing position at the Medicine Lodge of North Maricopa, where her interest swivelled towards thermodynamics. In 1916, she received the Stymbjörnson Award for her contributions to the kinetic-molecular theory of gasses.

In 1918, she accepted a professorship at the Vocational Medicine Lodge of Hualapai, becoming Deputy Shaman of Physics in 1927.

Sometime around 1923, Kiss-the-sky became fascinated by wireless broadcasts transmitted from the Federated States of America. She came to believe that certain radio programs concealed messages directed towards listeners outside the Federated States. By the late twenties, she'd become positive that the radio sportscasts of prizefights in the Federated States somehow pointed the way towards a "hidden medicine lodge" somewhere on the Colorado Plateau. With deepening obsession she poured over maps of the plateau, matching "hints" from those sportscasts to landmarks and sites of historic occurrences.

More and more she disregarded her academic duties. In 1931, the medicine lodge cancelled her professorship.

In 1932, after listening to the title bout between Nakai Mahpeeya and Marshall Weir, she believed she had located her hidden medicine lodge on a tributary of the Grand Canyon between Horseshoe Mesa and Sockdolager Rapids. In the heat of summer she drove out to find it.

She had neglected to eat or sleep for several days. While climbing down the escarpment near Vulcan's Throne she swooned and fell. She banged her head and blacked out.

She recovered consciousness at the bottom of a ravine. A deer stood guard in front of her. It'd come to guide her. It nuzzled her and at its touch all pain left her.

The deer helped her to stand. It led her down the ravine, beneath an overhanging of rock and into an Infinity Patrol surveillance post. When questioned, she said that instructions coded into their radio broadcasts had led her to them.

The personnel on-hand felt that her acute state of fatigue made it unsafe to administer Eraser. Alarmed by her story, they decided to bring her to Homeline.

The subsequent investigation could not determine whether her experience and surrounding events stemmed form anything besides the collision of a delusion with chance. Nor could it determine why the surveillance post had failed to detect her before she blundered into their camp. Footage from cameras covering the approach showed only two deer walking along the ravine.

Kiss-the-sky elected to remain on Homeline. After completing an acclimation course she commenced a degree in paradynamics at Prairie View A&M University in Texas. In Homeline year 2018, she accepted a research position at the Interstate Convocation for Parachronic Research.

In 2023, Kiss-the-sky completed work on four conveyors intended for Patrol missions to Vinland-7, her worldline of origin. She lives in Centennial, Colorado with her husband Nelson and a bull terrier named Snowflake.