" My brother Sessah races forward, and I grab him just as he flings himself at Lilah and I. I swing him in the air, grinning. “Little brother, do not knock down my mate!”

“I want to say hello,” he calls out, waving happily at Li-lah. He makes a new gesture, one that makes my heart swell with pride. Welcome home, he signs to Li-lah, and then looks at me. “Did I do it right?”
I rumple his messy hair and set him down. “You did well. "

― Ruby Dixon , Barbarian's Touch (Ice Planet Barbarians, #8)