Ragnelle grabs the basket and takes Nina up the same path to the woods she showed Magnus. Her pignut hickory has lost all its leaves by now, unlike the surrounding birch trees, which have a pale yellow-gold leaf that stays on all winter. It takes a while for branches to start coming out from the trunk, so it's not an easy tree to climb, but halfway up and close to the trunk where there are plenty of supports is her nest. It's a circular clump of dry leaves and blankets, and it stands out as not a naturally occurring thing, but it doesn't feel unprotected either.

"There I'll be well all winter."