Great Bear Wilderness rain

im good to fade! we will need another!

akmaaksi slept there beside callyope, and she dreamed of those great trees again, and wind in their branches, and three warm bodies beside her own.

but in the dream when she looked up, anaa had no face.

from the emptiness where her features should have been came callyope's song, lilting. beautiful. but it was not enough for akmaaksi. 

it would never be enough.