Lila's head hurt so badly that she couldn't sleep. The mat Mrs. Virrin had improvised for her and her two sisters to sleep was extremely uncomfortable. She couldn't stop thinking about Guilla and Lanaida and not knowing how they were was making her anguished. Her entire face ached from the soldier who hit her when she tried to attack him to protect her mother and sisters. Thick, silent tears began to trickle down her face as the sight of her mother being killed began to repeat itself in her mind. Madame Orana adopted her when she was only five. Her real mother, a prostitute from Paira named Dilla, was a complicated and unhappy woman who took her frustration out on her daughter. Orana gave the woman five coins and took the girl to the village where she lived and raised her as a daughter. Sh
