Ankyra Sound a shadow of the past

isengard told a halting story of a storm and the sea, and chani looked toward the sky in knowingness. "she gives an' she takes," the girl murmured, echoing her mother, who in turn had gotten it from grandmaman erzulie. rosalyn and erzulie. 
she didn't allow herself to daydream; she fixed the man with an attempt at her mother's cool eye and nodded. chacal might be suspicious, but not cruel. stuffing the word haloisi into a proverbial back pocket, chani at last began to yank drowned foliage from where it was tangled into his coat.