Alpine Lake -- never felt so alive, never felt so dead

@Uka!

She had led the way to Alpine Lake mostly in silence and she could feel something in her bones the closer they got.  She was lucky, she thought, that there was a body of water so close to the King Elk — she had not the heart to forsake Mato and her newfound family yet this calling would always be within her.

As the lake broke into their view, night was beginning to fall and she looked back at her green-eyed companion with a smile.  There it is, although it is obvious, the lake in all its glory.  She slows to a halt next to the shore as the water laps her ankles, sand filling the spaces between her toes as she flexes them.

Oh, how she missed this.