Cloud Atlas AU
1. The Kona raiders that attacked Zachry’s Valleymen village were but one of several tribes that terrorize the islands. Their Big Chief is a pale woman named Mima who wields great and terrible magics.
2. Mima is a disgraced Prescient who took some of their technology and fled. She easily conquered the Kona tribes through her firepower.
3. Eventually, another Prescient is sent looking for the stolen tech, a woman simply referred to as the Ghost. An assassin by any other name, she has been employed to hunt rogue tech-users for many years now. Her name isn’t known, but even the Valleymen fear her ability to seemingly kill with a glance.
4. Mima and the Ghost eventually meet and do battle. The fight is horrifying to the gathered Kona, who view this as their witch chief fighting a Goddess of death. Mima is critically injured, losing both of her legs, but she manages to drive off the Ghost.
5. Mima struggles with dissent among the Kona tribes at her supposed weakness, but before long, she develops a floating cushion that grants her the needed mobility to continue as leader.