"Leave me alone, spirit," she whispered, the words coming very slowly, broken by sobs.

"Dear spirits," her mother whispered again to herself.

"Dear spirits," her mother whispered to herself again, at a loss for anything more.

It was as though a spirit had visited her and whispered in her ear.

Home and in pain, the spirits whispered to each other.

"Dear spirits, thank you," he whispered before he kissed her.

The spirits of die stones whispered counterpoint to her song, and clustered around a breach hi the wall she hadn't seen before.

The bush spirits were whispering excitedly among themselves as we came to our mother's death-fire.

The spirits of my ancestors whisper to me in the night, and my soul pines for the wild places.

Abby's breathing nearly stilled when the air hummed, as if the spirits themselves whispered to the wizard.