affectionate nicknames
Plain Kate greased her boots and bandaged her feet, and soon she would walk like a Roamer born. She helped Drink with the water and the wood, and in the long, wet evenings she carved bark burn. Plain Kate carved fast and learned slowly. She was bewildered most of the time, but DAJ called her Mira again, and when she asked Drink what it meant, the girl replied, "It means she likes you. It means your family." Family. It could have kept her walking for a hundred miles. And she did walk far.
— Erin Bow
Tangle, meanwhile, made himself popular, killing rats and bringing a rabbit into camp every evening, preening in the praise - silently, thank god, though at night, he recounted choice bits to Kate: "Rye Bar says I am a princeling; he split the leg bone for me so that I could eat the marrow. They love me. And I'm sure they'll keep you, too." Mira, she thought, and treasured it each time she heard it, They must keep me. Family.
— Erin Bow
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