8/30/2025, 6:42 PM
this man greets you. was that a greeting of their people? always wishing to learn, yanan told herself to remember such things. she continued to watch their expressions, how they spoke to one another. ipiktok. it was not like her own name or that of the stone woman; it held a series of sharper, more curious sounds that she enjoyed.
her mother. this time yanan's eyes flicked with a mild worry at callyope, for she could not recall the woman having spoken so much of her family. what had happened to them?
the hunter's question had been for them both, but it was the pale wolf who answered. her own gaze blinked rather owlishly.
the eagle hunter people lived in secluded family groups of parents and children. sometimes a trader or two would be the only other wolves with which said clan would interact. marriages came after a young man dispersed -- or was dispersed forcibly by his father. girls might choose to stay and remind childless for a time, to tend their new siblings, or they too would travel away to begin their own lines.
thus, the concept of a village was beyond incomprehensible to yanan; she had not even heard the word.
her mother. this time yanan's eyes flicked with a mild worry at callyope, for she could not recall the woman having spoken so much of her family. what had happened to them?
the hunter's question had been for them both, but it was the pale wolf who answered. her own gaze blinked rather owlishly.
what is village?
the eagle hunter people lived in secluded family groups of parents and children. sometimes a trader or two would be the only other wolves with which said clan would interact. marriages came after a young man dispersed -- or was dispersed forcibly by his father. girls might choose to stay and remind childless for a time, to tend their new siblings, or they too would travel away to begin their own lines.
thus, the concept of a village was beyond incomprehensible to yanan; she had not even heard the word.