Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 25
"shekka-kai, please help him!" "i can't do anything if you're all over him like that! move!" the warmth left and suddenly his back was open to the frigid air once again.
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 11
Strange, thinking of her as his mother when they've really only known each other for a couple of months, not even the full length of a season, and yet it also felt perfectly natural (certainly more natural than anything he's ever felt between himself and shekka
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 20
With foamy slobber dripping from the corner of her mouth, shekka slipped the necklace over wardo's head, finishing the oath. "then rise now, wardo, as our new chieftain."
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 177
It created a terrible stench, not unlike the combined smell of death and medicine that had seeped into shekka's tent over the years.
Ander - Chapter 3, Subchapter 41
Would father have been able to convince shekka that she had miraculously given birth to a second cub right after the first one had nearly killed her?
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 89
It was shekka, standing all alone in a sea of darkness. _empty one._ "you're not my son..." she said, crying into her hands. "i don't have any sons... i don't have _anyone_ anymore..."
Ander - Chapter 3, Subchapter 24
"take him to my tent," shekka said. "and don't bother with the skull thing, we don't have enough time."
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 94
I am so sorry._ he stepped down, and then shekka came up to say her bit. mostly old wolven, half of which he couldn't even understand.
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 49
_ \* shekka pressed her face against banno's shoulder and cried. she never knew she still had so many tears pent up inside. she could imagine them as a torrent pouring from her broken heart, filling her up and spilling from her eyes.
Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 36
shekka's in her tent, sleeping. renna is with her mother, being disciplined. taberah and sorrin are keeping their heads down, just like you predicted." "and nilia?" "she's in the training grounds, probably getting frostbite.
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 110
It -" thinking of shekka sent a needle of pain through his heart. for a moment he had forgotten that she was no longer with them. it just sort of... snuck up on him, the image of her smiling, dying face as she dragged the scissors through her throat.
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 95
_ she knew it was shekka buried beneath their feet. of that, ander had no doubt. _she was given such a beautiful gift, a precious gift, and to hear her say those things about you... i just...