chieftain-to-be

Updated: April 30, 2025

The news having spread, Miss Sally Wooster was among the astonished spectators who beheld the tiny, half-naked, frightened little chieftain-to-be, gazing timidly about him as he sat on the planks, gripping his own little shirt as his one and only acquaintance. "Lauk!" she said, and laughing immoderately, sped for the door. "Sally, you ain't to help neither Barney nor us!" called Tuttle.

- Life at High Tide

It was not needful, the young Salariki chieftain-to-be hastened to tell the Cargo-master, that the senior sky lords concern themselves in this matter. In fact it would be against custom, for it was meet that such a hunt be left to warriors of few years, that they might earn glory and be able to stand before the fires at the Naming as men.

Andre Norton - Plague Ship