For three weeks traveling through the Earth Kingdom was as amazing as Kanna had expected it to be. Then she ran out of money. She wasn't entirely destitute, still having the thick furs she had stopped wearing not long after she had made land as well as a little jewelry, but the lack of money was a wake-up call.
Kanna might have been living her dream, but she was not dreaming. Kanna knew enough to sustain herself with fishing at the poles, but she had no idea how to go about living off the land in the Earth Kingdom. Besides, Kanna preferred sleeping in nicely-furnished inns to sleeping on the ground.
She had been spoiled, Kanna realized. All of those years growing up with almost anything she wanted as well as a hefty allowance had made her soft. Tuparnaaq would certainly not have been put off by sleeping on the ground.
For the first time Kanna wondered if she should have suggested moving to the Earth Kingdom to her prospective mother-in-law. Working together, Kanna and Tuparnaaq could have convinced Pakku of anything.
So why had Kanna assumed that it was Pakku's place to talk to his mother about such things?
