Lion Head Mesa dying for pie

asked to skip mr senmut!

where perhaps another might have grown frustrated, Toula was endeared. greatly amused, Toula saw a pretty creature to be shaped by the ways of Akashingo. she only wished that @Nazli might be here, to teach her more! but they were thoughtful, and this was what struck Toula more than anything else. she watched the stranger, miss perez—miss toona, said she!—bow, and bring to her the gift. Mazoi stepped forward, but Toula raised an ankle in dainty, gentle pause.
how lovely, Toula admired from afar, though did stand to draw nearer to both. though it seems to me you yourself are a gift as well! Toula admits. she was charmed by the strange way in which miss perez spoke; she wanted to hear more.
it is your wish, to serve me? Toula asked; that the Hem had brought her here meant that he, himself, thought this stranger worthy of it. Toula was not yet queen, though she hoped to be a good one; and so she granted the stranger this final moment of choosing. the fellahin with her then seemed encouraging, outfitted still in the colors of mourning nearby.