“I came back from my first campaign and I’d been in my own clan’s lands for half an hour before I noticed.” She glanced up at his face, surprised. “I was cold and wet and very tired,” he said. “When I did feel something, it was because I realized we were only about twenty minutes from the keep and I might get warm again.” He shrugged. “And then again, other times I have come home and felt as if I had finally woken up after a long illness. I suspect these things say more about us than they do about the land itself.”
