21ROLLY HAD TOLD Katherine everything, from the collusion between government, loggers and soldiers, to the problems the rice farmers and copra makers had perennially experienced, to where King’s parents were, but not so much about Mercedes. He talked briefly about what Delfin had shared when he was here the week before. But on Mercedes and her disappearance, Katherine still had nothing. Katherine asked Rolly about Nora and her family to confirm if the girl was really related to the missing woman. Rolly was unsure how to talk about Nora in relation to Mercedes. He didn’t think the girl even had an idea of how she was related to the woman. But when he started discussing Dante and his wife Estela to Katherine, Rolly found himself getting interested again in the situation the family now faced.
