Ander - Part 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.

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Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 32

32 The iron bars were colder than ice against his back, so cold they almost seemed to burn. Hezzi could feel their blocky pattern even through his fur, eating into his flesh. "Sit still," Mother ordered, and Hezzi did his very best to comply, but...

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Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 50

_ \* shekka pressed her face against banno's shoulder and cried. she never knew she still had so many tears pent up inside. she could imagine them as a torrent pouring from her broken heart, filling her up and spilling from her eyes.

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Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 24

"take him to my tent," shekka said. "and don't bother with the skull thing, we don't have enough time."

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Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 90

It was shekka, standing all alone in a sea of darkness. _empty one._ "you're not my son..." she said, crying into her hands. "i don't have any sons... i don't have _anyone_anymore..."

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Ander - Part 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...

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Ander - Part 5: Subchapter 26

"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.

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Ander - Part 3: Subchapter 16

She's always been so direct about her thoughts and opinions, giving voice to them without hesitation or fear of reprisal, for she was shekka, the empty one, witchdoctor of the wolves and the knower of the cora.

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Ander - Part 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!"

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Ander - Part 2: Subchapter 5

5 Hezzi was in no hurry to go outside. It would take a while for all the Wolves to gather, and he still had some thinking to do. He looked down at the broken carving still clutched in his hand, the sharp splinters of wood sticking out like arrows. So...

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Ander - Part 2: Subchapter 4

4 Hezzi lay on his side, his knees drawn up to his chest, his arms folded tightly against his body, the little wooden figure of himself carved by Ander so many years ago clutched tightly in his fist. With all the flaps closed, his tent was nice and...

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Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 186

I am so sorry._ he stepped down, and then shekka came up to say her bit. mostly old wolven, half of which he couldn't even understand.

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