[Shaw still doesn't answer - not until she's cleaned off the tattoo site and affixed a bandage to it. Only then does she settle back against Root, resting her ear right over her heartbeat.]

Two words.

[She says, listening to the th-thump.]

Zende means "alive". And idar--

[She pauses, briefly.]

It's an archaic word. Something I'd hear in the classical poetry my mom read to me when I was a kid, not a word anybody would actually use these days. But it means both "here", and "now". Present in place and in time.