Alpine Lake dirt

tveir, she hummed back to him. testing it on her tongue, the taste of it familiar and strange all at once.

there is a summit not far from here i live upon. my brothers have come here and taken a wife each, now leading their village strong. she spoke plainly, laying it all before him. she felt no danger from him. now i have come, hoping for a husband and a sense of something new.

this time she sheepishly looked away from him, eyes glancing back towards the waters she had come from.