A slow nod and he added all of this to the mental list he was making. "I would believe we are short of stone, but we are surrounded by forest. Perhaps we should begin there. Careful cutting of trees can maintain the forest and encourage new growth as much as provide wood for building or for heat. There are many possibilities - but if we are without woodworkers or carpenters, that may be an obstacle."

That was what he found himself wondering. What sort of basic things were they without? Tools? Knowledge? He knew many things in theory, but in practice, his training was very specific. He knew how to hunt, to cook, to tend to weapons, how to extract information from many different situations, and how to kill. But he was not a smith, a carpenter, a farmer. He knew about smithing, carpentry, and farming, but that was not his profession.

Perhaps those were things, here, that would have to be learned from the beginning.