Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 85
It created a terrible stench, not unlike the combined smell of death and medicine that had seeped into shekka's tent over the years.
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 86
shekka may be a cold, merciless she-wolf, but she was also hezzi's mother - _mine, too. not by blood, but_ _(your blood is a lie.)_ _she was always there._ - and he loved her with all his heart!
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 19
Still, he knew kadai and shekka must still be standing underneath its reaching arms somewhere, listening to every blood-soaked word. "that's how i know you. you hated banno. you despised him.
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 18
He was both a son of shekka and a son of sarah. he was both a brother of hezzi and a brother of banno. his present was in grovenglen, but his past was beyond the mountain, with his people.
Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 75
This was normally the part where shekka would invite friends and family to speak, to say their final goodbyes before the pyre was lit. but he wasn't her family, and he wasn't her friend. he was her murderer.
Ander - Chapter 4, Subchapter 8
He looked up and saw shekka standing outside her witchdoctor tent, her gaze directed at the dying fire, but who knew if that was really what she was looking at? it was more likely she was just smelling all the smoke in the air.
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 36
The father would kiss his brand new baby girl or boy, and then he'd kiss his mate, and on more than one occasion he'd even kiss mother, apparently forgetting that she was supposed to be shekka, the empty one, the big bad scary witchdoctor with the pale eyes
Ander - Chapter 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 could live like that.
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 33
After what happened with shekka, she had no intention of taking any chances with she-wolves of questionable sanity, but apparently ander didn't think along the same lines, because he went straight for her. "ander, no!" nilia hissed after him.
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 44
Some wolves gave him a hardy clap on the back and muttered encouragement, while others avoided him like the plague, giving him just as much berth as they ordinarily would have reserved only for shekka.
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 70
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 - Part 4: Subchapter 7
He - * * * for those of you who are interested, shekka's 'old wolven chanting' is really just some butchered afrikaans, chopped up and jumbled and stuck in there to make a semi-fictional language.