Porcupine Ridge x ilukutak

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Since her last trek to climb these steep spires, Eleuthera had put herself to task — practicing her climbing, as her mother was known to do to glimpse the heaven ever closer — and found she was far more familiar with such terrain than she had been, all those moons ago. The lilac woman was a creature of the mountains. As for the road itself, she had always considered the more indirect to be the more interesting. The mountains had sheltered her amongst the willows time and time again, but at times they would call to her. To catch-up, and have a nice time together. To simply challenge her, if anything at all.

Atop the rigid spine of the earth, Eleuthera also watched the birds as they pirouetted out of sight. She released the breath that she didn’t know she had held, let her gaze fall and land upon a man who had been watching the same spectacle, and smiled within herself. She paced closer a dancing step or two, interested in any company she might find these strange, remote places of the world. “Oh, if only we too had wings, and could descend just as easily,” she commented laughingly, once she was within earshot.

@Kigipigak