Behind the Scenes / How Are You Feeling?

There was a fragility to summer darkness. Even after the sun had disappeared behind the horizon, there was a glow that never quite disappeared - as though the sun were a distracted father, rushing out the front door to retrieve the mail but never out of earshot.

Bazi sat just outside her den, watching the stars through a narrow crack in the foliage. They sparkled in the incomplete darkness, winking down at her from their lofty place in the heavens. Somewhere inside the den, one of the pups sneezed - its siblings grumbled. Bazi watched the den until they had settled back down before stepping a little further out, putting enough distance between herself and the den that she could see it, but spare their eardrums when she loosed a long, high howl into the night sky.

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