QUOTE : I made them fresh this morning. Emma–she likes me to call her Mother–is teaching me how to cook.” “That sounds like a useful skill for a girl,” Cassia said as she chewed a mouthful of venison while scanning a room to the side. It was filled with long tables and benches. Rachel pulled one of the knives from a sheath at her belt and twirled it between her fingers, finally walking it across her knuckles, flipping it and catching it by the point. “Chase teaches me to use weapons.” Cassia’s face warmed with a conspiratorial smile. “An even more useful skill. You are a girl after my own heart.” “She knows how to cut it out for you, if you’d like,” Chase said with obvious pride.