No one said a thing, not even a raise of a hand, but I heard it many times. I ignored it when Souxie said it, and tried to push the word out of my life once I became of age, but I knew the word well. “Her scars are a right of passage for a young girl to signify she is of mating and marrying age,” Professor Junior went on. “Taluwi Tribe…hunters of lakes and rivers…They are the first, and oldest tribe to touch the sea and the first tribe to touch land.
I wanted her to love her and learn about her heritage so bad during this part.
