Naeg / by Keri Lopez

‘Naeg,’ she spoke to the boy. ‘You don't speak Gaellic, you speak your mind. The language is infallible, uncorruptible. Dinna think you speak Gaellic when you speak Hatred. That's a horse of a different color.’

‘Dinna fash,’ he says, as if he fashioned the language. She looked at the young man before her. ‘You have much to learn.’