while i ate ( creamy yogurt , sweet dried fruit and some kind of grain all mixed together , it was actually quite tasty ) and drank coffee ( the only good thing so far , the savages had coffee , though the milk they had to put in it tasted slightly tangy ) , diandra chatted to me about seerim , her three sons ( all , she bragged openly , in training to be warriors , her first , she bragged scarily , had already made his `` first kill '' ) and her one daughter ( `` he would deny it , he is proud of his warrior sons , but sheena is seerim 's favorite , '' she said ) , my women ( i refused to call them slaves ) carted in a big , oval copper tub with one side swayed back and filled it with buckets of steaming water .