Redtail Rise LX

her words were a bright cry. chin dripping, mountain boulder swung his ears forward in curiosity.

ermine seemed compelled by some unnamed emotion. he would not have thought for a moment that he was its source; the man cleaned water from the sides of his jaw and then sang a single note into the air, one that took the lowest tone of her own voice.

perhaps she wished to sing. the boughs curled; the water crackled its aria of ice, and he sang another, higher sound.