She glanced up the mountain toward Cooper's Peak. Now that their second winter together was underway, she'd adjusted to them. They were a handful at first, so full of energy and child-like joy to be up here in the mountains. A rescue shelter in Denver found her these two, both under a year old. But as much as she relished the recluse tag that still clung to her, she missed the companionship. It was heartbreaking to lose him, even though he'd only been with her six years. When Nico had died, she'd decided not to get another. She paused to watch them frolic, a smile fixed to her face. She laughed as Kia lunged at Sierra, only to sink to her belly as Sierra jumped safely out of the way. The two Siberian Huskies, with their intelligent blue eyes as striking as the Colorado sky, burrowed in the snow around her. "It doesn't get any better than this, girls." The snow clouds had drifted lower, but up here on the mountain, the sun was shining brightly, the blue azure sky almost an overload to her senses. She turned in a circle, hands held out as she sunk past her knees in the fresh snow.
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