Spotted Eagle Mountain snake

we spoke of plenty, and some part of her wished for the woman instead! so pointed and witty. of alliances and your thoughts on me. she dared to flatter herself as if it might give her that spine of steel!

she said not all were just for war — and she has a garden.

hadn't her mother gone much the same way? silent but seemingly sudden? but perhaps they had none such in their garden! perhaps they only spoke of healers and herbs meant for akashingo's sesh.

the world spun beneath her.