"Jewish!" Idunn said with delight, because she knew what that was. "Your people invented bagels and I love bagels." Which failed to mention that Idunn, ever the happy optimist, loved almost everything. "I've never been to your lands, but I hear they're hot so I'd probably not thrive there. My people come from colder lands." "
Iraq," Idunn said, rolling the word and idea around inside her head. "Terrible wars there now," she said sadly, putting her hand on Esther's sympathetically. "I'm very sorry."