Aly looked at Nawat. "I could not bear for Stormwings to touch the old woman," Nawat admitted, eyes bright with unshed tears. "Or Ulasim."
Aly touched his cheek, her own lips quivering. "If she thought you cried over her, Ochobu would just throw magic at you again."
"That is why I waited until the death god had her to do it," replied Nawat.
Trickster's Queen by Tamora Pierce
Ochobu marked Nawat as a crow and set her miniature kudarung on him as a human. But Nawat loved or at least admired her.
Ochobu: ornery, hateful of the luarin, stubborn; powerful, dedicated, gives her life to the cause, taking out FIVE enemy mages as her last act.
Side note: The entire Dodeka family dies for the cause--Ochobu, Ulasim, and Junai. Of course Aly and Nawat name their triplets after these three.
