[She recognized his voice and turned over her shoulder to shout back.]
In the back!
[Her protocols for who came into the kitchen weren't as strict as they would have been back home, but most people who even bothered were already pretty okay in her book anyway, and probably would have been on the 'okay list' to come into the back of her restaurant there if she'd had one.
She was working on some of the items she had harvested today as well on the center table, prepping some herbs for drying, setting some aside to keep fresh. She addressed him as he came in.]