Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 8

He looked up and saw shekka standing outside her witchdoctor tent, her gaze directed at the dying fire, but who knew if that was really what she was looking at? it was more likely she was just smelling all the smoke in the air.

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Ander - Part 4: Subchapter 16

shekka was even crazier than wardo, and that was before banno died. now she's hanging on to her sanity by a hair. no telling what that bitch might do...

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Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 44

Some wolves gave him a hardy clap on the back and muttered encouragement, while others avoided him like the plague, giving him just as much berth as they ordinarily would have reserved only for shekka.

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Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 51

"it's just like shekka-kai said! it's a curse! a curse!" yes. this was good. he could work with this. all he needed to do was get the right tone, the right emotion. he was so tired of pretending, but this would be the last time. the last. damn. time.

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Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 117

_ those eyes were just like shekka's. empty, yet full of hate. _i have to do this. i know i'm not like ander, i know i can't just reach out and touch someone like he can, but i have to try.

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Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 71

Banno approached the wall with shekka tagging behind, one hand lightly touching her son's elbow to guide her across the treacherously uneven ground. dorin wondered if he was even aware of her presence. "what's going to happen to us, dorin?"

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Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 20

"let him go, shekka." "but war- i mean, chieftain! he doesn't understand what he's doing! let me talk to him! just, please, i know i can make him see reason!" "no, shekka.

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Ander - Chapter 3, Subchapter 14

Maybe more than shekka, even after all these years. i'm ashamed to admit that, but it's the way i feel inside. i think you're the only one who can understand, ander." he did understand. it was just like sarah had said: _i need to say it.

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Ander - Chapter 2, Subchapter 17

This was even worse than that horrible night twenty-three years ago when shekka - no, he didn't want to think about that. his heart was heavy enough without the weight of those dark memories pressing in on him. those dark, bloody memories...

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Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 35

If shekka hadn't stopped him back then, it would have been three, and that would surely have been the end of everything right there. no one can live like that. those holes left by the loss of the ones we love can kill as surely as an arrow to the heart.

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Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 85

shekka. the empty one. if he blew this horn, everyone down there would die.

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Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 41

He reached them just as wardo and shekka stepped off the ladder. shekka immediately retreated into the shadow underneath the tower, where there weren't any wolves for her to bump into and trip over, but wardo did the opposite.

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