Matt
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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He sat in the truck talking to Marin's uncle through the open window.
I couldn't hear the words, but I could see the posture, serious, focused.
After the neighbor left, Marin's aunt told us, no leaving tomorrow, weather.
Marin didn't challenge it.
She just nodded.
Jonah opened his mouth like he was going to argue logistics, then closed it.
That night, the dogs didn't just bark.
They howled.
There's barking that's territorial.
There's barking that's excited.
Then there's the sound a dog makes when its instincts are screaming and it doesn't have language for it.
It's a long, rising note that turns into panic.
It started around midnight.
I know because I checked my phone the first time it woke me.
I got up and went to the window.
The yard was black.
The dogs were out there losing their minds.
Then over the dogs, I heard something else.
A voice.
Not my name this time.