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Highever, 9:32 Dragon

The summer sky burned orange behind the shadows of full-leaved trees that grew just outside the walls of Castle Cousland, the first sign of stars twinkled in the east as the sun began to set.  Warm, humid air, and sunsets carried bittersweet memories for Nathaniel, those he’d formed over seven short summers in his childhood, those that haunted him in the nearly ten years that followed.  It was inaccurate to call it homesickness, for it was not his home, and yet he could find no better word.  In all truth, it wasn’t Highever he missed.  It was her.

But that was an old story, one he no longer needed to tell.  Unless Liss asked to hear it, of course.

He glanced to his right, where she walked by his side, staring out over her family’s lands with sparkling eyes.  Fireflies danced in the distance, and in the tall grass around their feet.  Slowly, Liss turned to face him, seeming to sense his gaze on her.

“What,” she asked with a laugh, eyebrow quirking up at the question.

“Nothing,” he answered, shaking his head, “Do you remember when we were children, and we ran around like fools catching fireflies?”

Liss didn’t answer, she just reached down into her pack, rifling through the various contents only to pull out a small glass container made of rose-tinted glass, smirking as she placed it in his hand.  “Maybe this time we’ll catch enough for a lantern.”

Nathaniel snorted.  “Are you serious?”

“Oh,”she exclaimed, clasping her hands together, “I got one.”