Meanwhile, Lina was occupied with changing her clothes and having her hair arranged by several maids at the villa. The women spoke fluent foreign languages, which made communication difficult, and she had no time to pursue the young priest even if she had wanted to.
It took more than half an hour before everything was finally in order. The language barrier had forced Lina to spend much of that time communicating through gestures, which proved considerably more exhausting than she had anticipated. Geographically, this region corresponded to what would have been Italy in her former world, but no such unified country existed here. Its territories were divided among Lorraine, West Francia, and the Papal States. The remaining islands of Sicily were known as the Tulian Islands, a fiefdom that had belonged to her dear aunt's late husband.
