White on the mountain, and a borrowed name. Perria — peri in the Ottoman ear — keeps a fairy face that northern speech still separates from the zana’s war and the shtojzovalle’s ring-dance. Waste bread, the dictionary says, and the beautiful figure may answer as a crooked hunchback. That is her pin: not armor, not revel, but the household insult that bends the spine of the tale. If someone says perria e detit, open the sea Beauty and water-maiden doors — do not assume this mountain sheet swam there alone.