CHAPTER 5
Saturday morning arrives, and I find myself bumping around in the front seat of dad’s work van, heading to the animal sanctuary. It’s stifling outside, with such vivid heat haze rising from the asphalt, it’s like I’m going to see mirages.
We pass the woods as we speed down the main road leading out of the village, and I glance over to where I saw the blur. The hairs on my arms rise. It’s there again! We’re moving quickly, and it’s gone from my sight in less than a second. I look at dad, but he’s too focused on the road to have seen anything. Was it really there, or had I only seen it because part of me expected to?
No, that can’t be it. I know it was there. I felt it watching me again.
An hour passes, and the animal sanctuary finally comes into view. After all that time ponde
