Knowing You
“After parking her car behind the Leaf and Bean, Stevie stepped out, set the alarm, and turned for the shop.
But that pitiful whimper stopped her in her tracks.
Cocking her head, she held her breath and listened. A brisk sea wind whistled down the alley, rustling bits of paper as they were carried off into the darkness. Stevie tugged the collar of her sweater up higher around her neck and pushed her hair back out of her eyes.
Where?
Then it came again. Fainter, more … helpless, somehow. Just the slightest sigh of sound that seemed to carry somehow over the sweeping wind. The pitiful cries came again, faint, weak, and drew Stevie to them like metal shavings to a magnet. Rubbing her upper arms against the chill of the early-evening damp, Stevie followed the sound that was tugging at her heart.
Stevie walked quickly, carefully, out of the halo of lamplight and into the shadows.
Here only the moonlight dappled gently, and in a tiny patch of silvery light she saw the cardboard box and the t...iny scruffy head that poked up from within.MoreLess
But that pitiful whimper stopped her in her tracks.
Cocking her head, she held her breath and listened. A brisk sea wind whistled down the alley, rustling bits of paper as they were carried off into the darkness. Stevie tugged the collar of her sweater up higher around her neck and pushed her hair back out of her eyes.
Where?
Then it came again. Fainter, more … helpless, somehow. Just the slightest sigh of sound that seemed to carry somehow over the sweeping wind. The pitiful cries came again, faint, weak, and drew Stevie to them like metal shavings to a magnet. Rubbing her upper arms against the chill of the early-evening damp, Stevie followed the sound that was tugging at her heart.
Stevie walked quickly, carefully, out of the halo of lamplight and into the shadows.
Here only the moonlight dappled gently, and in a tiny patch of silvery light she saw the cardboard box and the t...iny scruffy head that poked up from within.MoreLess
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