she 'd never thought she was ; though if she thought back , she could n't remember any of her friends from that first year , only her teachers , and a few friends who had arrived later ; she 'd missed hanuna , left back in tarchna ( not for her the training , her future as a lauchum 's wife had already been mapped out ) , missed her dogs and hunting the coastal marshes , though the teaching had excited her from the first day and spurinna 's question , `` what did tarchies say when he sprang from the furrow ? ''