It was a simple detail in the vast rural landscape over which my eyes roamed at that moment—a dot on the horizon that began to grow larger as the car glided down the road. The first to alert me was Skadi, who had been unusually quiet lately.
"That over there, do you see it?" she said in my mind, directing it, at that moment, toward what she was observing. "It’s moving somewhat… strangely."
I observed it. At times, it was a small silhouette that disappeared intermittently, vanishing among the grass and trees, but then reappearing, larger. Although it moved irregularly, I began to realize that it wasn’t heading directly for us, but it was trying to reach a stretch of the road where we would intersect. I squinted without saying anything to Sage, with whom I wouldn’t share my discovery until
