Then Sami smiled. “Then perhaps the phrase means: ”
No one in the village understood it. Some laughed. Some shrugged. But Leila looked desperate. “It was my grandmother’s last words,” she said. “She spoke a forgotten dialect. I think it means something important.” thmyl syrya mwn jafa
“Let us not guess,” he said. “Let us break it down with patience.” Then Sami smiled