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When Adeline arrived on the horse, it was not the chorus greeting that caught her off guard, as she was already used to their chorus greeting of her name. What took her off guard was the act of greeting.
And before the arrival of the Khaladi, when the tribe leader and the people of Lutana heard the sound of the great white wolf, they knelt on the ground; they picked a handful of sand with their right hand; they poured it upon themselves and rubbed their sand thereafter on their skin, which to them was seen as purification.
When Adeline jumped down from the horse, she received the hand of the tribe leader, who remained bowed to her and open her palm above his head. That was a message well understood by Adeline as she came to the tribe leader who, then, at this moment, walked Adeline to her child.
