Muthr turned to her. “It is all right, Eva,” she said.<br/><br/>“You needed your space. Even living in that big,<br/><br/>lonely Sanctuary, you still required a place where<br/><br/>you felt truly alone. Solitude.”<br/><br/>Eva looked down, processing this. “But if you knew, why wouldn’t you let me go find the kids in the other Sanctuary?”<br/><br/>What is the meaning of "processing this" here? Is it like "after this"?