Fleur is rumored to hunt at night in another body, and Pauline cites Fleur’s tracks in the snow as evidence: The tracks change mid-stride from human to bear-like. After her drownings, Fleur becomes unpredictable, dressing like a man and dabbling in Chippewa charms and magic. Misshepeshu, a mythological water being, is said to be deadly to all Chippewa except for Fleur, supposedly because he wants Fleur for himself. Everyone fears and avoids the beautiful Fleur, men especially, fearing that she will drown again and kill them. Pauline describes more legends and rumors about Fleur. Eventually, Many Women drowns in a bathtub after he slips and is knocked unconscious. After this encounter, Many Women will not go near water. George Many Women finds her washed ashore, alive but her skin gray, and Fleur hisses at him that he will take her place. Years later, a twenty-year-old Fleur drowns again, but the men are too scared to save her, fearing that they will meet similar fates. The first man wanders off, and the second, Jean Hat, is run over by a cart and killed.
The first time, Fleur is a young girl and is saved by two men, both of whom suffer terrible fates. The narrator, Pauline, describes how Fleur drowned twice in Lake Turcot-stories Pauline first heard from her Chippewa grandmother.
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