"They're Argha and Algot," they said. "Mom - Argha - sews. Mostly for mending though; as far as I know, she's never made clothes from scratch before. She embroiders our initials on our socks though. And she taught me my reading and numbers at first, before I started buggin' merchants about them. So she knows that much. I think she's a good cook, but I guess everyone thinks that about their moms.
"Dad can do figures well enough for farm work. Only stories he tells are warnings about what we shouldn't be doing." They thought; it was hard to think of Dad doing anything that wasn't farming. "Mom said he used to be a good dancer, back in the day? And he's taught all of us how to punch so we don't break our thumbs, if it comes to a fight. Taught Freina how to go for the balls, too, in case someone gets an idea in their head that she doesn't want to go along with."
"Dad can do figures well enough for farm work. Only stories he tells are warnings about what we shouldn't be doing." They thought; it was hard to think of Dad doing anything that wasn't farming. "Mom said he used to be a good dancer, back in the day? And he's taught all of us how to punch so we don't break our thumbs, if it comes to a fight. Taught Freina how to go for the balls, too, in case someone gets an idea in their head that she doesn't want to go along with."
