“Your mother can hold your other hand for you to squeeze, and Robyn, here, will hold your hurt hand while I get the splinter out. I’ll wash your h...nd first, then we’ll see what we’ll see.”As he worked to clean the boy’s hand, a large man pushed into the inn, dragging a girl or young woman of indeterminate age. “Where’s the healer,” he demanded and pushed to the front of the remaining patrons waiting to see Pēteris and Robyn. “You’re to fix this wench, NOW,” and he pushed her forward. “She sick,. . I know something important happened from the look on his face when he talks about it but, you know teens, they do have their secrets." Well, Linda admitted a little more ... apparently, the whole island outing had been Linda's idea. I also found out that that she had planned that every one, including the counselors that supervised the outing, would be naked the entire time and the outing had been co-ed all the way, with the boys and girls sharing tents. Linda has assured me that nothing. Â"I didn't find the time earlier to speak to you. Pelle, it is good that you have that large wagon now. We need more coal. The Baron secured us shipments of ore from up north and he wants us to deliver more steel. The Count of Rennenberg will buy all the knives and swords we can make. Those other rascals have turned up bad quality recently. Somehow we need you to make more coal."Pelle thought about that. Now that he was living alone again his plans to increase the number of coal piles had. Mum took the afternoon off work and Emma as usual sat in a corner sulking. She had got good exam passes and could have applied to university but refused to consider leaving home or even think about her future and spend most of her time loafing around the house or at the shopping Mall with her drippy friends. Thankfully she was clean…she didn’t drink, smoke or use drugs, and she had never had a boyfriend. She was just becoming a total waste of space who expected to be kept in clothes and pocket.