[Huh. Most people...didn't really ask that of her. They tended to either make assumptions, or not say anything at all. Those who do end up asking don't until long after they've gotten to know her. And then, it's most wanting to know why she would isolate herself up in the mountains like that.]

Well...it's cold. [She was used to it, but that didn't mean she didn't notice when others lips turned blue simply from walking around the main hall.] We get a lot of snow in the wintertime, so I had to learn how to drive a snowmobile in order to travel the places I needed to go.

And it's quiet. The last few years, we've been getting more acolytes who wanted to come up and train, but more often than not, it would just be Sister Bikini and myself. I could go days without hearing anything more than the wind outside my window.