Whitebark Stream the last of her tribe

dii! she knew his mother, and his heart danced with the delight in finding kin. "then let us walk! tell me of your clan," sun eater offered softly. "we will not forget them on our long march."

how had keokuk survived? how far had she traveled? these things he wished to know, but the lanzadoii was careful of her grief.

"here you have kin. my sister is meleeys. my son is ghelan. my wife is dzaeyaqsaa, and soon she will give me sons and daughters. suliya is marriage-cousin," he decided, and took a new joy in how many true-blooded lanzadoii were among them now.