Claudia was mostly just trying to think, and while she definitely wanted to get out of the manacles, she wasn't sure that was going to happen. The inn was hardly a pleasant surprise, any more than the clothes or sandals, but it was more than she'd had.

"It's hard not to when we live together," she said, glad that the knowledge of the language she'd gotten was like she'd grown up speaking Norse instead of struggling for translations. "The endless supply of cookies may factor in there, too."