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Smile - nonsense
anxious Braille
Simile weird
Simile - incomprehensible
But an attack will expose the community? Question
Simile - sorta works. What’s the craggy asphalt? Min’s skin?
the language.
“Kiiwen. Kiiwen, promise?”
“Kiiwen,”
“Kiiwen.
“Kiiwen,
vehicles
Through the woods? But without them, how do they carry everything? Question
Why does French open Miig’s pouch?
Why is it safe to make a whole big camp for 50 people just two days from the ambush?
So they’re not terrorists.
an almost unrecognizable bunch of mourners held together by habit and grief and a shared history of survival.
No one mentioned that we’d lost the key to taking down the schools.
we were ensconced in Precambrian rock and vicious pine.
Why vicious? Question
Miigwanang — feathers.
The day Rose left
Where is she going? Why? Question
Nonsense.
Intact, not examined. Question.
the half dozen books the camp owned.
Maracle.
Question
already saying goodbye.
Question
‘Jean, running only works if you’re moving towards something, not away. Otherwise, you’ll never get anywhere.’”
A little late, bud.
running towards an idea of home that I wasn’t willing to lose, not even if it meant running away from the family I had already found.
“Ahneen.”
Simile weak
Simile ok
Simile nice
“A hunch. And a lot of hope.”
“Gonna send out the welcome party.”
everything would change in just a few hours, including the idea of keys.
“Nah, you go. There’s no adventure out there left for me anymore. I’m done.”
That’s how I feel these days, and it’s a nice feeling.
“I hope we find an Elder,” Tree said just ahead “Someone who can help against the schools,” Zheegwon finished.
They needed to have a p,winning / strategy session with the elders. Question
Four tents, military-style A-frames.
After the weather got violent and the islands were battered, the West Indian population here had swollen.
“Kinana’skomitin.”
An underground railroad.
Clarence was a curator of Cree.
What about Derrick? Question, or a bad sign?
He’s way more fluent than me or anyone else I’ve met. And walked his lineage back.”
“The key doesn’t have to be old, the language already is.”
the nurses and the Nish,
“Nehiyawok,
“To make sure my blood wasn’t too mixed. Can’t catch a break for being a half-breed, any way you look at it.”
Haha
“Isaac?”
Georgian Bay
