Again there was silence between them for a time. “What was the other world like—your home?” “There are songs that tell what it was like,” he said, but when she asked timidly what a song was, he did not reply. After a while he said, “At home, the world was closer to its sun, and the whole year there wasn’t even one moonphase long. So the books say. Think of it, the whole Winter would only last ninety days.…” This made them both laugh. “You wouldn’t have time to light a fire,” Rolery said.
