“I can take care of the rest. That ettin would have given me trouble if I was by myself, so you have my thanks.
I would ask you for one more favor.
My wife, she loved the carnations that grow by the water's edge. If you could gather some, there's a nice spot under a tree by the river. We loved to go there when the sun set after our days in the fields.
Our boy would run around, catching bugs, making reed whistles...”
