When I was visiting San Christobel in Mexico, I became intrigued with
the Zinacantec Indians' dream life. The Zinacantecs believe that everyone is born with
a twin animal spirit, who you learn about in your dreams. Your animal twin
lives in the Supernatural Corral on a sacred mountain with the ancestral
gods. If anything should happen to your twin, something will happen to you.
In my story, I have a young boy, Shun, learn in a dream that his twin is a jaguar, the most powerful of animals. But Shun's jaguar is in danger when his father's enemy has a bad shaman persuade the gods to turn it out of the corral. When that happens, Shun becomes ill. In a feverish dream he sees his jaguar twin stumbling about on the mountainside, but he cannot help it. His parents realize that they must get a good shaman to work some spells to keep the young jaguar from falling off a cliff or being shot by a hunter so that Shun can be cured.
There is suspense as Shun and his jaguar struggle for their lives, but at the last minute the gods intervene to save them.