Heron Lake Plateau But I'm ten toes down, I will not fold.

Fig began waving his little peets around in the air and it made Towhee's heart lurch in the best possible way. "That's it," she said slowly, aloud, before signing, -That's it. This is how we talk.- It didn't seem like he'd quite cottoned onto that yet but his mimicry made her hopeful that he would pick up on it soon. Her younger siblings always had.

-I love you,- she signed at him next, pausing between each of the three signs and doing them emphatically, then repeating herself a few times to see what he made of it.