Overture Downs make like a boy scout and leave no trace

He pinpointed her position with the sound of her song, giving chase even as she serenaded him. They were not the words to his own song, but he wove the lyrics together anyway, singing under her voice at times and above it at others.

"Cause there ain't no fear of dying
There ain't no hiding from the truth
The things we can't keep inside of us
We're gonna have to see them through,"

He felt it then; the same spirit that seemed to have taken hold of Slow West and Shady Bird. The song was in him — both songs — and he found he had more than enough air in his lungs to sing to her while they danced, her calling the rain and him dancing in it.

"And my heart goes rambling, leaping
Higher, deeper than my seeing
What is learning
It changes someday
But if I gave the wind its motion
I gave the blue unto the ocean
In return I'd only ask for freedom,"