The First Day of Spring

The First Day of spring, the man at the weather tower had said, and certainly it felt like spring, with the cool breeze blowing lightly about her and a faint new clover smell borne in from the east. Spring -- that meant they would make the days longer now, and the nights shorter, and they would warm the whole world until it was summer again.

"Trina!"

The voice -- it was a male voice -- voice was very close. And it was familiar, though for a moment she couldn't imagine who it might be.