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Toula listened, rapt. and for all that was said, Toula herself was not dissuaded nor discouraged. I can promise to never speak your name emptily, she spoke in dulcet tones, voice warm. all the names in my life have meaning to me, after all. and if it is only you that you must worry for, then know that regardless of that, you and your name shall not be empty things here with that. you may make it mean what you wish to, as my nebet, Toula's voice was honeyed and sweet; she meant the words that she spoke.
and it is my dream that my ladies are also my friends. companions that I can trust, Toula observed Hyacinth as she continued, that I can speak with, and laugh with, and dance with, and care for me as I care for them. a dream, perhaps, but her vision of a court was golden; she saw, in her heart, Hyacinth there.