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Losing a loved one was yet another experience with which she was not personally familiar, so Druid could not properly comprehend the loss, at least beyond her imagination. Thus she could not truly relate nor empathize, though the tears streaming down her hoary cheekbones demonstrated her deepest sympathies.

Mireille broke the tearful silence to say a few words about the dearly departed. She didn’t say a name, though she used a feminine pronoun. Druid’s heart twinged. She blinked, her watery gaze meeting her new friend’s and holding it.

Loa? she repeated, wondering how someone who had closed her eyes forever could possibly watch anything. But she sensed it wasn’t an appropriate time to question that, at least aloud, though her mind certainly whispered its curiosities.