Big Salmon Lake cutback

Concern washed over him anew. Commanded, he stepped forward, lessening the distance between them. The cold of the waters didn't bother him, but something about her seemed changed, and he feared the worst.

"You seem troubled," he said as he came up beside her, leaving a proprietary distance between them. He wanted to ease whatever strange mood had come over her, but he was not sure that it was his place.