"That'll teach you.... Never touch a wall on the sunny side!!"
Chapter #1 Jíbara
Metallic taste?
cutting tools
Chapter #1 Jíbara
"Why does everyone call me Negi?"
And we called you Negrita, and it got shortened to Negi"
"Because when you were little you were so black, my mother said you were a negrita.
Negi touched the wall and got burned and her mother scolded her.
Chapter #2 Fighting Naked
"Who's Margie?"
"She's my daugther"
Negi licked her fingers because they itched with a rust-colored powder.
Chapter #3 Someone is coming to take your lab
"Papi, what's a sin?"
"A sin is when you do something that makes God angry"
Negi thought she didn't have a nickname until her mother told her that her name wasn't Negi but Esmeralda.
Chapter #5 Why Women Remain Jamona
"It's a woman who has never married"
"Papi, what's a jamona?"
Negi listened to the argument that her father and mother had and she listened when her father mentioned "Margie" and when she had a few moments alone with her father she asked him who Margie was.
Negi was collecting grass for the camels of the Three Magi and she asked her dad what was a sin.
grass for the camels
Negi and her father were leaving the market, with a full belly and Negi asked her father what was jamona.