Helga ate her fish slowly, not noticing its flavour. She was absentmindedly drawing in the sand. There was the castle in which her mother's family lived, and the church where they had buried Helga's only sibling: Hans, who had died when he was three. She had revealed more of herself than she had wished to in her words to Briar Rose. Offering a role of older sister was a sore spot, because her father had always blamed her for her little brother's death. Without meaning to, she had erased the buildings and begun the face of little Hans. Angrily, she erased the image with a stick.
