Northstar Vale To bethlehem it slouched

tamar looked at his white fur caught in the treebark.

"i feel better about it than i expected to feel," she said with that same new candidness which had stayed with her since she had come to the vale.

tamar drifted a little along their path. "i feel — inspired perhaps. if aquene was here, i wonder if you would enjoy yourself more, kalllik," she gently teased.