Will, looking dangerously disturbed, crossed the field with the rifle. The depression in the grass where Hob"s Pond once lay showed up clearly in the moonlight.
He reached the fringe of bushes that surrounded the depression and lay down in the grass with the rifle to wait.
"Right, you monster!" he growled through clenched teeth, "you won"t get away from me now! You won"t ever get near my son again!"
He settled himself at the edge of the grassy hollow and c****d the rifle in readiness.
Ingrid appeared, walking up the field in the moonlight towards the depression once filled by Hob"s Pond. As she approached the hollow it began to change…
The wind dropped. The moon broke free from the clouds and its reflection floated in the water of the pond that now occupied the hollow.
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