𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒: 𝐶𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐸𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑡ℎ 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑚𝑝 𝑅𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑟. 𝑇𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑑𝑑 '𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑦,' 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑔𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑦𝑒𝑡.

[ She'll answer if he has questions, but for now she pauses in her boarding up of windows to take a breath and welcome the interruption. ]

𝐴𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓, 𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑗𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡, 𝑖𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒.

[ There's a significant pause before she adds anything about herself. ]

𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑙𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡. 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒?