Lonesome Travelers: guide to city / forest

A teenage girl comes to read at a nursing home and is assigned to an elderly man no one ever visits. She doesn't want to be here. It's a court order. She interrupts him in his spartan room where he is staring out the window at a great bird in the smoky afternoon haze.
Instead of her reading to him, he starts to tell her a story. The story is about the trickster Rabbit, condemned by the Fates to act as the fourth incarnation of Fire. His twin Brother, his shadow, is jealous of him and locks ...