The bags were light and not that much of an encumbrance, but men liked to be useful and Hild hardly minded. She passed along a canvas bag of fruit and vegetables with a grateful smile and her thanks.

Hild considered his words with a slight frown of thought. "Is it-- Are you nervous?" she asked. It was no small thing for Krem to have come home with her that night, she knew, and she knew it must be, in some measure, different with any person he might have in the future.