Flashback--Teaparty
Asleif very carefully set up her dolls in their little wooden chairs, smoothing a few wrinkles from Brunhilde's dress. Then, she very carefully placed her tea set on the table and smoothed her own dress before sitting down.

"Why yes," she said, "it be nice and quiet in the house for once. Perhaps those noisy children have gone far away. Mayhaps they might not return. Would that not be nice?"

She considered this, as though listening to one of the dolls. "Perhaps thou art right. They doth provide some entertainment value. And I doth suspect Mothers and Father wouldst be terrible upset without them."