Jade Fern Grove I walked alone

If he chose to.

Did he not wish to? He wondered about the other man's motives for the first time. Was he implying he wished to make home here? In these woods with this water?

It was not such an impossible though, but certainly harder with a lack of bodies and dropping temperatures.

You should be a poet. He laughed warm but tentative. You have a whimsical way with words. Remembering and speaking of your father how you do.