I had to walk from the mustering out point at Arnefjell...Three days for 50 miles after taking less time then that to come in from the 100 diameter limit on the transport ship ...The house looked almost as bad: the west wing had been reduced to ashes, and the Great Hall looked like it had been used for mortar practice, But Ilja was in what was left of the east wing, and had fixed up two intact rooms as a small apartment. She'd even juryrigged a set of pipes to draw some running water from the stream.
We spent that night in celebration of being together again after all we'd been through.
