Zumi had been struggling to make her not-yet-awake brain try to find something- anything -to get out of coming up with some fictional partner that wouldn't make her feel unclean and unsafe, since no man before Link had come through that made her feel anything but, but Yammo's final words cut that search short, and made her wither inside, pulling her covers back up to her neck.
"He's so stupid," she said, trying to fight back tears that she knew were partly hormone-driven. She was upset, but she never used to be given to crying much, not before she got pregnant. "He's so stupid, he's never going to get to have the kind of happiness we have. He needs to tell her the truth, so she can try to move on and find someone. That's not impossible, I know it's not. He deserves to be happy."