Mount Apikuni i can feel the light shine

did she?

she looked over herself as if this was news to her. warmth in her cheeks a bit of a sheepishness. she had missed the doctor from the creek, it was true, but she had not missed the embarrassing tangle of emotions that it inspired.

not bad, but messy. complicated. new.

it was much easier to not think about them too long.

not bad, her voice might have been meek if she could have managed it. instead it was low and husky as if she wished to hide beneath the depths of her voice. how you? the creek?