Hoshor Plains tinnun ⊹

Few in this place knew her name; she could count Dutch among them, and now the elder woman of the villages, so when her name carried with many others Sulukinak was indeed surprised to be included. She worried that it was the call for another hunt. The giants of the plain had frightened her once already.

She came slinking to the gathered women and the closer she got, the more whale-eyed she became. There were so many! Some were like her—young women, but not girls—and others looked to be the age of ice mother, and maybe even wise mother as she had been taught. Why did they come?

The shadow kept to herself, but she was watching, and in this way Sulukinak could see a great many things that others might not.