Chapter 12 A Mountain Man Rugged fey seeks the cliff, His fey queen dove from it, She flies as a cottonwood seed. Singing Dove saw Prancing Deer and fell in love all over again. Tall and strong as a mountain from the land where they lived, he bent to pick furs from the ground. Beaver, elk, and a bearskin waited for her. "Is it that you try to buy my love with gifts," she questioned from her hiding place among the fir trees. Snow-covered the ground early at this height in the Rockies. Prancing Deer looked up and searched for his princess’s presence but found only the trees. Jeremiah Smith stood by with his sixty gauge Henry rifle. The mountain man from England knew these two were in danger from their separate tribes but still came to keep them safe from the grizzlies that were

