To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit #1)

by Moniquill Blackgoose

It had a long, sinuous body, like an otter or a fisher.

I just read The Hollow Places T.T

“This is how Masquapaug will die,” Grandma said. “Not murdered, like Naquipaug, or smothered, like the Naregannisit and the Akashneisit, but slowly by bleeding away its young people. More and more of you every year. My own grandchildren. I shouldn’t have lived long enough to feel this pain.”

“You must prove yourself equal to the other students of this establishment if you wish to be regarded by them as an equal. In fact, you will have to prove yourself superior in all the ways they expect you to be inferior, just to be regarded as equal.

I’m thinking to myself: ‘She’s grown up. She’s a woman, and Nampeshiweisit, and nothing is the same anymore.’ But then you ran and hugged me.” “Father…” “And it was like every time you’ve met me on the pier since you were old enough to walk. Even last year, when I came home to less family than I was expecting. Do you remember what you said to me then?” “I said that I’d always be here waiting for you,” I said,

I'm only crying a little

“All I’ve ever tried to do is the right thing,” I said. “If that’s so very different from how things have been done before, then what’s been done before was wrong.”

I love Anequs so much <3