Oh? And is he the first man who lost a child?

( Think of her hurts, her losses. What difference is there between what Matthias has surrendered and what Anui herself has sacrificed? )

A time...? What do you mean, stranger? Will we be as friends, then? ( A smile, drawn out cruelly. )

Perhaps you'll take me on your arm and walk me as your woman, then. A widow. Will we be allies? ( It seems preposterous, unlikely. A tenuous proposition. And yet she hears and heeds. )