Ney’ira Utral’ite—named Child of Loss—comes to the Omatikaya not through ceremony or alliance, but through survival. Her forest clan, once hidden deep beyond known paths, was destroyed without warning by the sky people. What knowledge she carries is incomplete: songs cut short, rituals half-remembered, teachings learned through observation rather than guidance. When the Omatikaya take her in, they do not ask her to become one of them. Instead, they offer her refuge—and a path.