“Their protectors held me down while they tattooed this on me. It’s the salyik language. I don’t know exactly what it says because I can’t… I can’t read it, but my progenitor told me it warns all other salyiks that I’m a half-breed and shouldn’t be welcomed. I guess they thought that once I knew what I was, I might have tried going to the monster world to find others. So they wanted to make sure I couldn’t.”
