Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 117
_ those eyes were just like shekka's. empty, yet full of hate. _i have to do this. i know i'm not like ander, i know i can't just reach out and touch someone like he can, but i have to try.
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 71
Banno approached the wall with shekka tagging behind, one hand lightly touching her son's elbow to guide her across the treacherously uneven ground. dorin wondered if he was even aware of her presence. "what's going to happen to us, dorin?"
Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 20
"let him go, shekka." "but war- i mean, chieftain! he doesn't understand what he's doing! let me talk to him! just, please, i know i can make him see reason!" "no, shekka.
Ander - Chapter 3, Subchapter 14
Maybe more than shekka, even after all these years. i'm ashamed to admit that, but it's the way i feel inside. i think you're the only one who can understand, ander." he did understand. it was just like sarah had said: _i need to say it.
Ander - Chapter 2, Subchapter 17
This was even worse than that horrible night twenty-three years ago when shekka - no, he didn't want to think about that. his heart was heavy enough without the weight of those dark memories pressing in on him. those dark, bloody memories...
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 35
If shekka hadn't stopped him back then, it would have been three, and that would surely have been the end of everything right there. no one can live like that. those holes left by the loss of the ones we love can kill as surely as an arrow to the heart.
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 85
shekka. the empty one. if he blew this horn, everyone down there would die.
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 41
He reached them just as wardo and shekka stepped off the ladder. shekka immediately retreated into the shadow underneath the tower, where there weren't any wolves for her to bump into and trip over, but wardo did the opposite.
Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 25
"shekka-kai, please help him!" "i can't do anything if you're all over him like that! move!" the warmth left and suddenly his back was open to the frigid air once again.
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 11
Strange, thinking of her as his mother when they've really only known each other for a couple of months, not even the full length of a season, and yet it also felt perfectly natural (certainly more natural than anything he's ever felt between himself and shekka
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 20
With foamy slobber dripping from the corner of her mouth, shekka slipped the necklace over wardo's head, finishing the oath. "then rise now, wardo, as our new chieftain."
Ander - Chapter 3, Subchapter 41
Would father have been able to convince shekka that she had miraculously given birth to a second cub right after the first one had nearly killed her?