First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ A Girl Walks Into the Forest by Madeleine Roux
I am wrapped from head to foot in tassels and gray rabbit’s fur on the day I depart to meet my husband. Somehow, despite the care taken to protect me, my hands are still terribly cold.
Arylik -my village, my home- sits naked and wind-whipped between Lake Temtol and Lake Tarlii. The people of Arylik believe that long ago, at the sheared edge of memories and song, the giant siblings of myth, Temtol and Tarlii, chose this place to lie down and rest after a long journey across the steppe. But they never left, their sleep becoming death, their bodies shaping the lakes and the landscape.
