Cry Of The Heart by McKenzie Ana

Author:McKenzie, Ana [McKenzie, Ana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sapphica Books
Published: 2019-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Colette lay on her back in the shadow of a towering rock formation and gazed up at the sky.

‘I’m stuffed,’ she said.

Josie laughed. ‘I’m not surprised. You brought enough to feed a horse, and then you ate it all.’

Colette felt the lazy smile on her face. It was good to hear the ease in Josie’s voice, and she could feel it in her energy too, a gentle hovering, drifting, relaxed and pleasant.

‘I’m afraid that’s not quite true,’ she said. ‘You ate at least your share. And besides,’ she said, turning her head to look at Josie. ‘In my defence, I have several more inches to fill than you have.’

‘Not that many,’ Josie retorted.

‘At least four,’ Colette countered.

Josie shook her head, lying back in the grass next to Colette.

‘Three at the most. How tall are you? I’m sure being so skinny is what makes you look taller. We need to feed you up.’

‘I’m five foot eight – and weren’t you just having me on for eating so much? You can’t have it both ways, you know. Too skinny on one hand, too greedy on another.’ She smiled up at the cloudless sky because she could feel the tickling curls of Josie’s hair on her bare arm.

Josie laughed. ‘I can have it any which way I like, I’m sure,’ she said. ‘But you’re right – four extra inches it is.’ She sniffed and gazed up at the same sky Colette was watching. ‘Why do you think it is that we use metrics for everything except saying how tall we are?’

‘No idea,’ Colette said comfortably. ‘I can’t make head nor tail of the world most of the time.’

Josie sat up and Colette watched her looking at the hillside of standing stones, all of them natural limestone formations. ‘So how do you think these came to be?’ she asked.

The question piqued Colette’s interest and she sat up too. ‘I don’t know,’ she said. ‘But you can feel that something cosmic went on here, don’t you think?’ The hilltop was a jumble of giant’s teeth, the stones protruding from the grassy slope weather-worn and impressive. With the Southern Alps raising their jagged peaks to the sky behind them, and this higgledy-piggledy stacking of rocks, Colette thought she’d never been to a more magical place.

Josie glanced at her, then looked back at the stones and nodded. And giggled.

‘I wonder,’ she said, ‘if we danced around them, would we slip back to another time and place?’

That made Colette laugh. She’d been laughing a lot throughout the picnic. Josie was easy company. Once they’d gotten moving, she’d relaxed. She was better, Colette had noticed, when she was busy. She was also smart and funny. And deep, cool, clear. Colette wanted to swim in her depths more than she’d ever wanted anything.

‘Like in Outlander?’ she asked. ‘That was a proper circle of standing stones.’

Josie’s eyes gleamed, and she jumped to her feet, twisting around on the grass to lean down a hand to Colette.

‘This is the closest thing to a stone circle you can find in this country,’ she said.

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