Ander - Chapter 3, Subchapter 25
._ nilia was still trying to keep garten away, ordering him to go see shekka, but he would have none of it. _i'm okay...
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 36
Hezzi and danado were still in the cage, obviously, and shekka had shut herself in her tent, evidently to sleep the day away, so that only left nilia, and there was only one place she'd be this time of day.
Ander - Chapter 3, Subchapter 10
Well, he had to say _something_, and he had to say it before they reached shekka's tent. "your mother is hurt, no sense in keeping that from you now, but i'll take care of it. you just go back to your tent and go to sleep.
Ander - Chapter 4, Subchapter 19
"lana, you take danado to shekka. she'll take care of his wounds, and i'll go check on the others." "we can't do that, chieftain," she said. "what? why n-" kadai suddenly understood her reasoning before he could even finish his own question.
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 111
Her whole face was contorted into a look of fury just as menacing as anything shekka could have achieved. "er, i was just -" dekori said, starting to get up. "sit down!!" dekori sat back down before his knees even got the chance to straighten fully.
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 128
._ kiana thought she understood what shekka meant now. about how love was different for everyone, and how much it could hurt. she was a mother, too, in the end... a mother in pain.
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 31
"the plants shekka used were rare, and there was barely any rain that year. it wasn't her fault. there just wasn't enough to go around." "so they gave you their share of the medicine." "it's because i cried. it's because i was weak."
Ander - Chapter 8, Subchapter 3
Banno and shekka had gotten a pyre all to themselves. a chill crawled up ander's back, and he was powerless to supress it.
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 85
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 6, Subchapter 86
shekka may be a cold, merciless she-wolf, but she was also hezzi's mother - _mine, too. not by blood, but_ _(your blood is a lie.)_ _she was always there._ - and he loved her with all his heart!
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 19
Still, he knew kadai and shekka must still be standing underneath its reaching arms somewhere, listening to every blood-soaked word. "that's how i know you. you hated banno. you despised him.
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 18
He was both a son of shekka and a son of sarah. he was both a brother of hezzi and a brother of banno. his present was in grovenglen, but his past was beyond the mountain, with his people.