ine(noun)
Ibanese for grandmother.
would be right there if I woke up afraid. It’s always like she knew when I would make that dream. She’d hand me a glass of water. Then she’d stroke my hair, and her soft coos faded into the night only as I returned to sleep.Ibanese for grandmother.
Then she’d go on to tell me I’d forgotten about that dream of becoming a shaman again. She’d always talk to me about it as if she was actually inside that dream.
‘Don’t you see? Don’t you understand? You are a vessel of the celestial. You’ve transcended; you can heal!’ ine always says. ‘I’m supposed to tell you to heed that dream, that calling. But you already have enough worries weighing on your chest.’
