6 Warning
Sparrow parks her sports car in her driveway and collects her two large plastic shopping bags from the passenger seat floor. As she flips the lock on her car door, she hears the murmur of voices catty-cornered across Mountain Quail Gardens Park and sees a maimed silver sedan hoisted behind a tow truck.
Sparrow bustles to Malana's front yard, stepping out of the way of the tow truck as it pulls away from the curb.
"What on Earth!" Sparrow exclaims. "What happened here?"
Malana regards the skinny woman who has approached her yard. She notes the woman's long, grey-white hair with charcoal tips that reach down to the middle of her back and her linen, color-blocked cocoon skirt that is formless on her tiny body.
"It was a terrible accident," Malana replies, "about an hour ago.
