"We all live in the longhouse," Hilde says. "The cows and horses too, in winter, because then it's too cold to put them on the pasture, but in summer everything is more scattered out. And there's the baking ovens, and my ma has been baking, and my pa and Adalgoth's are working on the scythes, there, look!"

"Let's just go there and look!" Athalwin says, plucking at Kate's hand.

He's the one who gets to show Kate around, after all!