“What would you have done without me? You are an intellectual, Aleksander. A bookkeeper. You said it yourself; you don’t know these woods. Would you have known what foods could be stored for winter? How to hunt or fish when the animals became scarcer? How to hide? How to stay warm in the winter? How to build safe homes in the earth?” She hated to bring it up, but the fact was, he’d only survived because she had offered help, besa. Now it was his turn to do the same.
