Sorrow’s Knot (2013)
“At the edge of the sky was a line of mountains. They were taller and younger than the mountains that were the home of the Shadowed People, and their rocky peaks were white with snow.
Kestrel and Otter paused to watch the distant mountains become a hem of flame. They were huge and beautiful. So, thought Otter, this is the greater world. “Does nothing come from there?” she asked. “From the West?”
Kestrel was leaning on her ranger’s staff, weary, unbalanced by her bound-up arm. “Nothing human. Dee...r. Elk. Mountain sheep. Bears, when the blueberries are ripe. But the streams run a different way from here. And there’s no river deep enough to make a road.”
A gust blew across Otter’s ears; it filled them with a sound like wings beating, and for a moment she could hear nothing else. The wind was cold, but the air, when still, was not. “Where is the warmth coming from?” said Otter. It was a strange place, the caldera. It seemed held in a different season, as if winter could not quite reach it.MoreLess
Kestrel and Otter paused to watch the distant mountains become a hem of flame. They were huge and beautiful. So, thought Otter, this is the greater world. “Does nothing come from there?” she asked. “From the West?”
Kestrel was leaning on her ranger’s staff, weary, unbalanced by her bound-up arm. “Nothing human. Dee...r. Elk. Mountain sheep. Bears, when the blueberries are ripe. But the streams run a different way from here. And there’s no river deep enough to make a road.”
A gust blew across Otter’s ears; it filled them with a sound like wings beating, and for a moment she could hear nothing else. The wind was cold, but the air, when still, was not. “Where is the warmth coming from?” said Otter. It was a strange place, the caldera. It seemed held in a different season, as if winter could not quite reach it.MoreLess
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