“It does,” Hannah assured him before she stuck the green stalk back in her mouth.

Hannah stayed inside with me the rest of the day. She spent most of it sucking on a cold stalk.

Once she was finally more comfortable, I brought up the inevitable conversation.

“You know what this means,” I said to her.

“Once your teeth are fully developed, you’re supposed to go out on your own.”

She pouted, “I don’t want to.”

done. Do you even see any other young women flying around

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tacky, to fly too close to the mountain housing the men. The women

do they tell you?” I asked

grudgingly admitted they told her about the places they had been. She asked questions and the other girls just assumed her mother

because my mother hasn’t been to them in

“It wouldn’t do to have them think you are weak. Nu-reeh has said you are petite. I know you Learned to fight from your father, but I’m not sure it would be

Mama, so they think I am weak and I let them think that. I’ve play fought many girls in the mountains. I

was shocking information. I didn’t know Hannah fought.

heal fast,” she admitted sheepishly, “like my father. My skin isn’t as tough as the other girls, so it’s a good thing. I didn’t think

been sneaky. She explained how she washed off the blood and let the wounds scab before she

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