Hideaway Strath Do you? Can you? Have you? When?

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It is already too late to swim when the water reaches your lips.

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Her company forgave her, and she appreciated him that much more. It warmed her heart exponentially, and a grateful wag of tail issued such. She felt much more free to express her feelings around him, despite her training and self conscious attitude of her manners. 

Akira’s interest piqued at his ability- he was a medicine man! Those were both revered and feared in her culture, and she had never been allowed to speak to them for they were always busy, communing with the spirits and the Ancestors for guidance, for accuracy in saving the lives of others. But here one was! He seemed a bit young for the job however-

was he really a medicine man? 

“Where I am from, you would be under the training of an Elder Medicine Man,” she worded carefully, tip toeing as delicate as a feather falling from the heavens to land. “Are you learning medicinals, Posie? Your view are much more interesting than mine,” she offered with a interested pair of sapphire-blue hued ears struck direct to the cream and oak coated friend.

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Not all birds have been taught to fly. Some simply fall until they either learn, or perish.

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