Lion Head Mesa jumentum

how shocking, all of this! but… have you found happiness, or has that too been lost? for all that he had listed sounded to her like sorrow after sorrow! and Toula mourned these losses for him, and thought too Akashingo had lost something with Mereo being no more. 
but lost things could be found again, she remembered. perhaps this came to mind as she thought of her own loss, of sisters and brothers. it was as if he knew her thoughts, speaking her name and bringing one of them to life again. 
we have not heard recent news, but the last thing spoken was that she had gone to study, truth, all of that—it was only that the words had been spoken by a man that had then been Hem. and by now, Toula believed it too, so often had she said those words. 
back to him, now—she asked with a girlish innocence, rather than one prying for information, what happened with your marriage? that you ended it? she had not known such a thing possible! and as Toula searched now for a husband, she felt the knowing of this might aid her, somehow.