~ Safe at Home ~

Trista goes down into the living quarters and adds some dried pine needles to the ashes in the clay fireplace. It is important to keep the ashes glowing since it takes a long time to start a fire from the beginnings. When the flames have taken hold, she adds some twigs. She reaches for one of her favourite bowls on the shelf above the fireplace and mixes up root flour and other special ingredients to make a light and airy bread which she cooks on a flat stone over the fire. She boils dew water in a large snail shell and measures out the dried rose hip and dandelion root to brew a delicious tea.