Ander - Chapter 3, Subchapter 37
shekka has made the will of the cora clear, and as the cora wills, so it shall be, and what the cora wills is for ander to suffer, and then to die alone."
Ander - Chapter 3, Subchapter 18
As ander pondered these questions that no one should ever have to ask themselves in a sane world, shekka threw her head back and _laughed_. she just laughed and laughed until tears streamed from her dead eyes, wide open and staring.
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 83
To the tribe they were shekka and banno. they were the 'empty one' and the 'flavour of death'. they were the witchdoctor and the strongest son. they were all of those things, yes, but to hezzi they were simply his mother and brother.
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 - Epilogue: Subchapter 2
Besides native american, there are also many african influences on the wolven side, the strongest probably being shekka, who more closely resembles a south african witchdoctor than a native american shaman, and the 'old wolven' language, as i've stated before
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 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 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 - 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 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 - Part 6: Subchapter 48
_ shekka was standing further back, clinging to the statue's ankle like a lost pup, caressing it, whispering to it.