"That sounds wonderful, Mama." She'd always wondered about her mother's family; where she had come from, how she'd learned so much. It would be great to know where the mare that had taught her so much had come from. "Doesn't that sound wonderful, Nuka?"

Special? Did this Gran'mama just call her special? Oh, she loved the mare already! Anyone who could see just how special she was couldn't be all that bad.

"Mama kept sayin' I remindeded her of you. That's a good thing. I like you. Don't you like Gran'mama, Wadi?"