Mudminnow River shrike

the łu’ nda’ tsaay’e let her eyes roam the dark man, taking appraisal from the boy of her comment. it made sense to her then— a sharadoii mother, hence the tongue that she could not fully understand. it was full of knicks and quirks that differed from her own, but her mother tongue had been believed indescribable: murdoii.

thank you, she dipped her head to the patriarch of the band. it was custom for a male to leave his natal band— but to marry a sharadoii? suliya let her facial expressions do the talking: minute shock.

a mother in ikpik, granddaughter of iluuraq. ancient murdoii. though, would he know of her father? my father is lanzadoii. kavik, though i do not know much of his heritage.

she cast a side long glance to the teen who muttered something in sharadoii beneath his breath. he did not look happy. was there tension amongst them? suliya could not tell. my brother, ugiun, was a bad chieftain. greed sought him to cleanse the caribou, a treachery i wanted no part of.