Greatwater Lake born to be

"Shee-soo Mary-Soul Believe-you?" Apple repeated the girl's name in a way someone tries to speak a foreign language for the first time. "Well, I can't say that your parents lacked creativity, when they came up with your name. You have to give them credit for that," she remarked. 

"Apple Blackthorn, proud matron of the Blackthorn clan," she introduced herself, putting emphasis on her self-claimed title. After all, bearing children and raising them to be proper and sane individiuals had been her life's greatest achievement. Aside outliving three mates. "Do you live here?" was the next obvious question. The third would be - do you have food to honor an old lady with?