The Space Between Moons
To the ridge becoming visible through the window and the bond at full signal and the pack around them and Fig at the foot of the bed and the small person who was part of all of it, who was the next thing, who was the beginning of the next circle.
"Alder," she said.
He looked at her.
She looked at him.
"Yes," he said.
She breathed.
He put his arm around her.
She leaned into it.
The second January morning came fully in over the ridge, and the territory breathed, and the pack was alive around them, and outside the east garden had its winter beds and the rose was under snow and the clematis on the opposite wall was waiting for spring.
Everything was waiting for spring.
Everything would arrive at
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