The Heartwood Dreamland is a free land

The description helps him center the word in his mind. Ah! he exclaims, recognizing what Mal meant. Tetemeko. That's what we call it. He is struck, yet again, by how far away he was from home.

Yao thinks of the description that Mal provides, inhaling sharply to indicate that he was listening and absorbing what Mal had said. He had met no one that had matched that description, but who was to say? There could be many wolves in this land — and there were corners that he had not yet discovered.

He sneaks his head out from underneath the bramble bush. The rain has stopped, I think, Would his companion be so hasty to leave? He enjoyed the conversation, the first long one he had had since he arrived here.