Water Birds

Some songs can only be heard by those who are ready to change.Twelve-year-old Mira Valsen has always known the lake is different. Not dangerous — just aware. Like it watches. Like it waits. Every morning she walks its shore barefoot, gathering flowers, feeling the ground's warmth beneath her feet, sensing things she has no words for yet.Then one dawn, the water begins to glow.A sound rises from th...