When she tried to climb higher into the mountains, she ran into snowstorms & ice fog. Boyd spoke up then. —She ever seen any sign of my wife up there? When she was traveling through that mountain fog, did she cross paths with a woman? Nat’aaggi shook her head. —Why did she come back up here with us at all? Why didn’t she just go home? Pruitt’s tone was blunt, even insolent, but I shared his interest. —I do not want home, she said.—I want to see. It was unexpected. Not just to hear her speak English, haltingly but with clarity all the same, but also the sentiment she expressed.
