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What Briar Rose loved to do, of all things, was sing.
She wasn't sure if she was a good singer; her aunts never sang, and there was virtually no one else in the forest, so she had no one to compare herself to. But she found that she didn't care..singing brought a joy into her life, lifted the weights from her shoulders, even if it was only for the few minutes that her aunts allowed her outside.
Thankfully, Briar was out on an errand for her aunts, which of course made her delighted. She began to wander off into the forest, her quiet humming soon turning into full singing; the animals of the forest seemed to be at further ease when she sang, and she laughed quietly as two birds sang beside her.
The one thing that she did not realize was how far her voice would carry; perhaps, on this day, it would even reach the ears of a fellow traveler.
