Moonspear letting the water fall

Altair called out, and Sialuk turned her head to see him approaching with an aggressive-looking posture. The strange boy's voice had a peculiar lilt to it. Sialuk could not place it. He did not sound like her father, but he also did not sound like her mother (both of whom were distinctly different in the way they spoke). Altair demanded to know the strange boy's name, meanwhile the strange boy asked several questions at once. It was all quite a lot for the girl who'd taken a tumble earlier in the day.

It is okay, Altair. I do not think Huojin wishes us harm, she said, hoping to soothe her cousin's concerns. I am Sialuk, and this is Altair. We are both Ostregas, born on this mountain. She smiled then, standing aside her cousin and silently thanking him for being there. She would not have been quite as comfortable on her own, even if she did think Huojin harmless.