He came here when he was young, bvacationing/b each summer in the small village, spending days on end in the water or on the ski slopes. It was paradise. He could kayak down a fjord one day, and ski down telemarks the next, and he did from childhood ... There was no vet in bSkjolden/b; the closest was nearly 10 miles away. When a calf was laid wrong, that was 10 miles too many. So Kjetil had taken the inheritance from his parents and purchased a building in the town centre. ...