Caprice Dague

“Such questions were a recent habit Ruby had developed. She seemed to delight in demonstrating how disoriented Ada was in the world. As they walked by the creek one day she had asked, What's the course of that water? Where does it come from and what does it run into? Another day she had said, Name me four plants on that hillside that in a pinch you could eat. How many days to the next new moon? Name two things blooming now, and two things fruiting.

Ada did not yet have those answers, but she could feel them coming, and Ruby was her principal text.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain