Winter Tide

"You`re really good at running into danger," she said. She stretched, looked to the line of starlight still jagged across the clouds. The wind, though still gentled by the elders` hold, had picked up again. "But you`re not much for the really crazy gambles that can make the danger interesting." I thought that danger was too often dull, and crazy gambles rarely considered just how much there was to lose. But that wasn`t the world Audrey had managed to make for herself, during her nineteen years alive and free. Daring, I said, "I`m not mad enough, you mean."