Dragoncrest Cliffs viciously and fatally attacked by an unknown animal at Claire's

The repetition is broken. Easy didn't go far when she wheeled away and spooned turned to face her partner again, feinting forward and falling back in turns as she turned the dance into a round of shadow boxing. Thunder rolled and lightning crackled around them, and Easy felt free and alive in a way she hadn't in many, many moons.

The dance was no longer a story, but a grand aria of wordless adulation - Easy danced the swift steps of life, of danger, of perseverance. In this, she thought Mallaidh was better than her. There was something about the other girl - Easy could see parts of herself reflected in Mallaidh's eyes, but something older. More tempered.

Are you sure you've never danced before? asked Easy breathlessly, the dance winding down as she grew winded - the emotions roiling inside her having been spent.