Challenge 11 -- Wood Between the Worlds fill -- Drabble chain #5

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Air rushes into her lungs, and with it light, vibrancy, energy.

A new world.  A slow smile curves her lips, in wondering delight at its strange beauty.

She sees, too, the creatures - mild eyes and curious forms, long, stalking legs, soft, wide paws, sinuous weavings and leapings.  They crowd closer to her, asking... she does not know what they ask, but she cannot doubt their trust and yearning.  They wait, expectant.

Her lips part, in exhilaration and joy - laughing, speaking the first words of that new world.  “So, cousins....  we'll dare it together: the adventure that shall fall to us!"