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Now that is very much a false dilemma, isn't it? There are options other than enslaving people or killing them. But if you can't have tea, then we shall have to find an alternative - do you smoke? Otherwise we might go for a walk somewhere pleasant. My young cousin could join us, if that would be agreeable?
Oh, it is nothing worth hearing. Silly stories about bathing in blood and the like.
I would agree that it had some natural cause and was not the wrath of an angry god, at least!
I know that she travelled a great deal. I had a great admiration for her when I was a small girl, you see. And there are ways of determining pronunciation if you cross-reference transcriptions and translations, although the exact details of that are a little beyond me.
Then I shall do what I can, and be sure to tell you what I discover.