Ah. Maybe she shouldn't have made Setsuko chase her. But, it was worth it in the end. The look on the other woman's face- of so absolutely being there and making herself remember.

For Aloai. Although, it was a spectacular swirl in the path, this place where they had all been left together. It reminded her of so much. The gardens in the jungle. Of taking the anthropologists there, the girls from other islands too. Of the tang in their tea once they were all gone away. And now, she would remember too. Setsuko as she was right then.

Roa plucked her switchblade out and went to the place where the great, big red blossoms lingered together. "I think there's more than enough of these to share," she said as she nipped one off and then another. One she gave to Setsuko. The other she kept for herself and slipped behind her ear.