Lion Head Mesa twenty-ninth

she had prayed to the Gods—prayed and prayed and prayed. and perhaps this was Their answer. for her to become more than merely just what she dreamt of. 
she saw Tawaret in this, and Iset. and she would become the latter. we must protect them, Toula decided at once. how terrible, for a mother to be separated from her children—she thought longingly of her own lost mother, @Treva, and would have that for no other if she could help it! 
Toula asked him then, knowing him better versed in perhaps these ways than she: have we the resources? for this? to do all that we must?