Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 78
Aisa helped him move closer to the wall, and as they passed banno and shekka, dorin couldn't help but notice the strange look on banno's face; part concentration, part anger.
Ander - Chapter 3, Subchapter 15
Ander could just make out his sideways whisper to her: "shekka, are you all right?" she turned on him as if attacked, barking for the whole tribe to hear, "my son is being tried for murder! of course i'm not all right!"
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 13
"shekka would've just rinsed them once and been done with it." "well that's not very hygienic," kiana said, trying her very best not to shudder at the name.
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 37
._ kiana thought she understood what shekka meant now. about how love was different for everyone, and how much it could hurt. she was a mother, too, in the end... a mother in pain.
Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 79
_how could shekka do this to her own son?_ she wondered for the hundredth time. _how could she do something like this and call it 'love'?_ she gritted her teeth and kept going, walking over jagged stones half-buried in snow without slowing down.
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 13
"shekka would've just rinsed them once and been done with it." "well that's not very hygienic," kiana said, trying her very best not to shudder at the name.
Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 5
When shekka said, 'burn her,' i wanted to take it all back, but it was already too late. too late... always too late..."
Ander - Chapter 3, Subchapter 5
When shekka said, 'burn her,' i wanted to take it all back, but it was already too late. too late... always too late..."
Ander - Chapter 5, Subchapter 16
My mother is shekka, for crying out loud! the empty one! the witch doctor who could curse you just by looking at you! she rarely hits me, but -" "no, your father was the one who always hit you!" "don't talk about my father like that." "see?
Ander - Chapter 6, Subchapter 32
Ander, hezzi, chieftain kadai, sorrin, taberah, renna, danado, lana, even shekka. had she not seen all of them shed bitter tears in the last few weeks?
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 17
My mother is shekka, for crying out loud! the empty one! the witch doctor who could curse you just by looking at you! she rarely hits me, but -" "no, your father was the one who always hit you!" "don't talk about my father like that." "see?
Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 81
_how could shekka do this to her own son?_ she wondered for the hundredth time. _how could she do something like this and call it 'love'?_ she gritted her teeth and kept going, walking over jagged stones half-buried in snow without slowing down.