So his guilt and memory tell us one story and then Eris tell another about a selfish woman who decided that after losing her adopted son who protected her from a Fallen raiding party, decides to send Zavala back to Saladin and then moves on to another man, has a daughter with him and lives a long, apparently happy life. Meanwhile, Zavala buries his sadness in his work, thinking that he failed both Hakim and Safiyah and spends the next few centuries trying to make it up to a memory of a clearly ungrateful woman. Man, the poor guy.