Monday, November 23, 2009

Laborious Fruit

Andrev killed the pheasant to avoid conversation, and then he led Kana through the grass to where several more roosted.

They headed back to the Wanderer camp by midday. Kana’s lucid interlude seemed little more than a dream as she gamboled beside him, in pursuit of a hummingbird.

Andrev kept playing her words over and over in his head, and he was so distracted that he almost walked into Kir.

Who sneered at him.

And then flashed a charming smile at Kana.

“Maiden,” Kir said, “I offer you the fruits of my labors.”

He held out a brace of rabbits.

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