Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).
I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.
What I am telling you is that Matta had a way of making you feel comfortable and that's probably why he had nine wives because he made them feel comfortable and then uncomfortable later.