It must be wonderful having a house by the sea.

[Sabriel tips her head forward as she's bid, reaching up to brush some of her shortened hair from her forehead.]

Abhorsen's house sits on a small island in the middle of the Ratterlin river, right on the edge of the waterfall which...admittedly makes the passage to the house a little perilous on foot but it's one of the safest places I know of in the Old Kingdom. And it's beautiful.