Lion Head Mesa You leapt from crumbling bridges

you were born with the bearing of one, Toula commended pleasantly, and said, though what you do not know, you can always be taught, if you wish, here she smiled softly; Toula would not force her, if she did not wish it for herself!
but the girls upbringing, it intrigued her. it had never occurred to her that anything could be so different, and yet there Hyacinth was, telling her so! no royalty?! had Toula less grace, she might have guffawed at the remark. it seemed uncivilized, but Toula did not turn her nose up and away from Hyacinth. it was not her fault!
Akashingo is very different, Toula admits to the flower before her, though her voice was not dark nor dour, beyond a lady, there are other places one might fall to; priests, priestesses, warriors, teachers, she explained, and alongside me, we are ruled by Pharaoh, Toula smiled as she shared some of their way, but did not wish to overwhelm the other.
I have it within me, divine as I am, to grant you ladyship. to give the De Vries name greater power, a girl that came from nothing, granted a brilliant future to become something more than she already was! and Toula already saw the girl called Hyacinth as wonderful—but her own daydreams might not be that of the girl before her, and Toula prepared herself for this.