...They are. I'm still learning to understand them. [The time she spent with Ephraim and Eirika's army was brief, and while she has learned more about people in those months than she may have in centuries, there is still much she has yet to understand.] I think they would be very sad if there was ever a winter that didn't have snow for them to shovel.

The villagers near my home have lived there for many of their lifetimes. They are very proud of the mountains. I think they are prouder because so few people live the way they do, so far from everyone else. Is... was Himring like that, too?

[Because he spoke of it it the past tense, didn't he? Maybe Himring no longer exists. Maybe it rose and fell, as so many places do, in a scant few hundred years.]