Mason
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I don't know why.
Maybe because I was starting to realize I didn't want to touch it.
I was maybe six feet away when its eye opened.
Only one eye.
The one facing me.
I froze with one foot slightly in front of the other, like my body had stopped mid-step.
The eye was not glassy or weak like a dying animal's eye.
It was clear and wet, and it caught my headlights in a yellow shine.
It looked straight at me, not around me, not past me.
at me.
Then the corner of its mouth moved.
I don't want to say it smiled because that sounds fake, but that is what it looked like.
Its mouth was already partly open, and the skin at the side pulled back slowly, showing teeth.
Not all of them.
Just enough.
I backed up one step.
The coyote did not get up right away.
It just watched me with that one yellow eye, and its mouth kept stretching back until it looked almost too wide.
I could see its gums.
I could see stringy spit between its teeth.