*Eleanor*
I smile as Thora hands Mani to me and take a seat at the table. “I don’t know how to repay you for your kindness.”
“There is nothing to repay,” she tells me. “We all want Mani to have food. It is no trouble. You should not have slept in the barn, though.”
I smile, remembering the first days here when Erik and I slept there. “It was fine. We’ll see if we can find another goat today. I am worried that they may have killed other family’s livestock.”
“Leave Mani with me while you do,” she offers, and I happily accept. I can’t feed her until we get a new goat. “If it comes to it, we have a mother cow, but taking that in a boat would be hard.”
“We will do what we must for sweet Mani,” the real Anders says, sitting at the table across from me and smiling at my baby with a
