Snow:

Daine sighed as she looked outside. She couldn't believe it. It was an early winter. The night before she left for Numair, not to mention her home, it snowed. The pass to Tortall was completely snow covered. There was no other way to get to Tortall! Hakkon laughed when he saw the snow. He was happy that she was stuck here. They all probably thought that she is now officially insane. Lory had her stay in bed the next two days. Rand won't look at her. Daine was about to kill something.

On top of all that, they decided that she could eat meat now. Daine threw all of it up. Every time she heard Lory go into the kitchen she winced. She couldn't take it anymore! Her face was about to turn permanently green from feeling so bad after she ate. She could bet she knew on of the animals that she ate, which made this all that much worse. She wanted to ask them how they would like to eat one of their friends.

Just to make things even better, Hakkon's nephew is in town for the winter. And he thinks I'm pretty, she thought darkly. She had over heard Lory, Rand, and Hakkon talking about them getting married. 'They would have such cute babies.' Lory had said. That was worse than eating meat, much worse. Now they tried to get her top fall in love with them. Now every time he talks to her, Daine just thinks of Numair. Oh no, she thought, I forgot, Numair's going to kill me! Daine grabbed a piece of paper and wrote a note to him.