"Well," she will turn him around by the shoulder until he faces what she assumes is the right direction and then let go - and not a minute before it if he struggles against being turned around, "we need to find a picture in sections B, D, M and R and then describe it with the tools lined out on this sheet. B's closest from here, so we'll start there."

"...And if you're not Danish, why do you sound Danish." Her mother tends to think of herself as an Icelander too, but she has enough years under her belt to be able to have been two things in her life in succession.