“Answer! Her! Question!” continued to roll through the crowd with fists in the air.

A man’s voice had joined its cacophony, too, though Lory wasn’t sure where from.

When the pretty outsider opened her hand, Lory brandished her fist in the air and then opened it with spread fingers to emphasize her point.

A few of the women close enough to hear her looked amongst each other, Lory included.

Did she keep chanting? Did she say yes? … The chanting was easier to yell, so she stuck with that.