Cerulean Cape a world within a world

For a moment there Esma was tempted to mimic Sobeille's accent and was about to begin with my maman... only to cut that thought short, stop and think. "Her name is Ash Paw," she said, carefully choosing her words. "She is a healer," had she also been a leader too, Esma did not know. Anything outside the small family circle did not concern her at all. 

"She worships bear gods," she added. "I do not know, if she does it well or not," she remarked, so focussed on attempting to form her reply the way Sobeille had that the silliness of that last sentence was lost to her.