Valla

As soon as he received acknowledgements, he called Valla and Kainor to him.

A Matter of Honor A Terran Empire novel Ann Wilson

And now Valla was leaning on her father's shoulder, gaily urging him on to victory, and Sara was running the hair idly through her hands, while the kneeling girl bowed her pathetically shorn head to the floor and then followed the housekeeper from the room.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

Pencherjevsky encircled both me and Valla for an instant in his bear-like hug, his great, bearded face within an inch of my own, and there were tears in his glaring eyes.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

He is very well liked by all in the house, the Count especially, and I fear that little Valla admires him, too - it would be hard not to, I suppose, for he is such a big, handsome fellow.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

So I took the ribbons and he crept back perilously into the sled - one thing I was sure of: Valla would be safe with him.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

It crossed my mind that he'd overheard the heaving and crackling of my contortions with Valla, but his next words drove that idea out of my head, and implanted a new and disturbing one.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

Well, you know, I think the truth is that I was a bit soft on all my girls - Lola and Cassie and Valla and Ko Dali's daughter and Susie the Bawd and Takes-Away-Clouds-Woman and the rest of 'em.

Fiancée 2010

However, after that small discussion the weeks had slipped by without any other important Russians visiting the place, and then came my diversion with Valla, and East's ridiculous day-dream went clean out of my mind.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

I hated you then ... because of the way you had treated Valla ... when you flung her from that sledge, into the snow!

Fiancée 2010

We didn't see the Count at dinner, nor Valla, and Aunt Sara was uncommunicative.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010