Mora’s monologue contains the heaviest amount of dialogue updates. The base of it is still there, but the framing is now more a patriotic ode of the Balkans (or more specifically in Mora’s case, Romans) in the face of their conquerers, the Ottomans – introducing the theme of colonialism (as told in the pattern-making via the weavers and the transportation of carpets as part of international trade) and the nightingale as yearning for home. Themes that will be very important in Volume Two, which I didn’t know the first time I wrote and drew this page.