"Your abuela sounds like a wise woman, and she will be rewarded in kind when she asks for hospitality in return," Hera said as she walked along the shelf, because the reciprocal expectation was a big part of xenia too. If she could turn one Chicky towards doing things a bit more Greek today, that was her good deed for the day done.
"I run a retreat down in New Mexico," she said, picking up a small madonna icon. It was a gaudy thing, but then, the statues of old had been gaudy too, before the paint weathered off and the replicas were never painted at all. "We offer sanctuary for women of all kinds of backgrounds. Ever been down that way?"