“The truth is that of course I came to congratulate all of you. I don’t come here very often, but that’s because I have such a strong Weather Man. Even when we don’t agree, she does what’s right for the clan.” Hilo went up to Shae and saluted her. “Far do your enemies flee, Kaul-jen,” he declared, uttering the traditional Green Bone congratulations to a victorious warrior, before putting an arm over Shae’s shoulder and kissing her brow. Even though the Weather Man could no longer wear jade and her triumph had been a distant political one decades in the making, echoes broke out at once, and
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