Kintla Flatlands Manifest destiny

She cocked her head. 'Najak?' Maegi asked. It sounded much like the northern language Kove had once attempted to teach her, but the word was unfamiliar. Sibling? Sister? Family? It must be something along those lines, and Maegi did very much love to learn new words.

She listened to his words, all the while trying to guess his age. If he had been born on the glacier, he must have been the product of a fling between Kove and some random woman. Wouldn't he have to have been born in the woods otherwise? She parsed through her memories of female members of Blackfeather Woods, so much of it coming up hazy.

All she could remember was Relmyna, the pregnant Listener, carrying her sisters. And Kove, father of her heart, was certainly not Cicero.

It seems very nice, Maegi said politely, casting her thoughts aside. If his mother were to be revealed, Jaes would reveal her. Did you ever know my brother, Vaati? He stayed with Rusalka for a time. And now is missing, she thought dully, but gave no voice to her pessimism.