"Amen," Sarah Beth echoed and when Koschei looked over her head was bowed and her hands clasped under her chin like a girl child back at her folk's supper table.  She waited a moment, adding something silently, then murmured "Amen" again before opening her eyes.<br/><br/>Taking a jack knife from her pocket, she wiped it clean on her napkin then cut the apple into four equal quarters, setting the seeds carefully aside.  "Ever had apple butter?" she asked the table in general.  "That'd go good with these," she added and used her fork to cut the first bite out of her griddle cake.  She chewed then nodded towards Isi in approval.<br/><br/>