Rooms

  Stepping through the hide door flap, it seems immediately that there is

more room inside this dwelling than it appeared from the outside.  A small

fire pit has been constructed in the middle of the floor, over which meat is

roasting on a spit.  Soft animal skins are strewn all around, every inch of

floorspace covered in a comfortable blanketing.  Small woven baskets line

one section of the slanted wall, carrying crude tools, dried herbs, leathers

and other items of use.  Smoke from the fire pit is sucked quickly out a

smokeflap in the ceiling.  The entire space smells of leather, woodsmoke,

must, and the earth on which it sits.