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Sheanother cascade of sand like a veil over the entrance

‘Is this better?’

‘No, it is not What are you doing now?’ he de

‘I want to sketch those mushrooms’

‘Rocks’

‘They cannot possibly be natural rocks Only look at them That one looks like a parasol run amuck’

Despite himself he turned ‘Which one?’

‘You cannot see it from down there’

Edge surrendered before he even began the fight this ti down and he would likely have an apoplexy waiting for her to fall At least if he was close he could grab her before she did soain

Oh, Sa to do with you?

‘There See how beautiful it is from up here?’ she whispered when he stopped beside her They stood so close the rapping her skirts about his legs like amist

‘We are barely ten feet off the ground standing on a pile of stones Hardly an Alpine peak’

‘It is not a ‘‘pile of stones” It is a hts Where would you coe?’

‘There is nowhere I would rather be’

The words were out before he could think and he very much hoped she interpreted them as apathy It wasn’t that he wished to be here beside her, precisely It was merely true that there was nowhere he would rather be

After a moment’s silence, she returned to the view

‘That formation looks like a tipsy mushroom, doesn’t it? And that one like a rabbit with one floppy ear and a bad squint’

‘It looks like a rock’