Aldana Candi lowered her head, took a gentle breath, and said to Ellen Candi, "Shall I knit you a woolen scarf? In a few days, when you go back to America, I'll have the scarf ready, and you can take it with you."
Ellen Candi clapped her hands with joy and said, "Aldana, you're so skillful."
Aldana's expression changed slightly because of the way she was addressed.
"What's wrong?" Ellen thought she had said something wrong and asked with some confusion.
"Nothing." Aldana fiddled with the wool yarn with her head down, "If it's okay, you can call me Aldana."
Ellen was merely calling her the way Philip Shaw did, and upon hearing Aldana's words, she called her, "Aldana."
As the words were spoken, many blurry voices also emerged in her mind.
The same voice was calling, "Aldana. Aldana. Aldana."
She shook her head to shake off the noise-like voice in her mind, and vaguely realized that the voice seemed to be her own.
