Chapter 72 Safe House

• Melissa looked out the window again, trying to discern what the actual shape of the large shadow casted against the mountain was, but she got a different answer this time, yet again. Last time it had been a cougar, now it was a goat running backwards. She giggled and turned to Richard who was quietly driving the car, and hadn’t said a word for the past two hours they'd been on the road.
• "Avalors is right," she said. "The shadow changes all the time we move. Beats me how I never noticed that. I would like to know the theory behind it."
• Her boyfriend only nodded and she smiled. For some reason, she wasn't bothered by Richard's quietness anymore. She'd reconnected with him at his most primal level and she more than just understood him, she remembered him for what he was, what he still is.