Mason
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I said no.
He asked if I was on anything.
I said no.
He asked where exactly I first saw it.
I told him.
He asked if I wanted medical help.
I said no.
He wrote everything down in this tired way, like he had heard every version of a night road panic story before.
Then my uncle said, you should check the road by the second cattle guard.
The deputy looked at him for a second and asked why.
My uncle said, because something was out there.
The deputy looked at my car again, then at the scratches on the roof.
Then he said he would check.
He came back about 40 minutes later.
I was still at the kitchen table with my mom sitting beside me.
The deputy talked to my uncle outside first.
I couldn't hear all of it through the window, but I heard enough.
He said there were tracks.
Not tire tracks.
Animal tracks.