Moonsong Glacier oldmother

Ajei only knew some of the words he spoke. So she wasn't sure how to reply. She smiled and slowly picked her way along the mountain. She had found out the hard way that sometimes the higher up you were, the slippier they were. They held ice deep and high.

What is it you hunt? She asked, choosing her words carefully some that he would know and some of his own. As best she could, her accent proving that she spoke her mother's tongue more than the tongue of his and Moonwoman's own.