M. Verant@JonathanSheldon Here's #28 of 139 "step"s in my WIP:
Yuánchi’s head stretched closer to Emma, studying her from several yards above the dried rose that topped her bonnet. She stared back, enthralled and guileless as a child, clothed in red from head to hems except for a froth of yellow ringlets shining in the lantern’s light.
Yuánchi took a long #step back, then laid delicately onto the earth, his neck unspooling until his nose settled by my feet.