Lost Creek Hollow i'm floating down a river / oars freed from their holes long ago

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Of course she wasn't a Blackthorn - he could see that well enough now - and he felt his breath fizzle as she turned to take her leave. "Uh, yeah. Yeah, of course." he said after her, while a nervous chuckle broke his strongest attempt to sound pleasant. Now that had gone swimmingly. "I'll just... leave... and, um... go... this way..." and he turned to head the opposite direction from where she had fled, to find himself alone with his regret, and the pale threads of sunlight streaming through the trees.