Ok one more reading and something else popped out at me. The lake that was next to Michael's cabin was called Iktomi lake. The lake that fissured and dropped her through the ice, sending a web of cracks that nearly killed M & S. So that was certainly an interesting choice of names, because Iktomi means spider in Lakota, and is also the name of Spider, the archetypal trickster (who is NOT a heroic figure but more of a troublemaker and a lesson in bad behavior and consequences). The author has sadly conflated Dine (Navajo) traditions with Ojibwe in the case of dream catchers, and has added her own twist to it (the spirit that can embody those dreams). Often word searches online don't credit language of origin for various indigenous our words (just calling them "Indian") so I'm wondering if this is where the author got the name for Iktomi lake, and if she wanted specific implications... damn I so wish she had completed the final story of the trilogy!!! Thinking back to Tabulate Rasa Scully had a nightmare that same first night when Mulder had his awful nightmare. Perhaps hers was about what happened during those missing couple of days rather than her original abduction? Geez I need more people to spin wheels with me...
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