Matt
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
A human-like exhale, broken into syllables, like someone chuckling under their breath.
It was brief.
It could have been anything if you heard it once in the wrong context.
But after the week we'd had, it landed like a weight.
Marin's uncle whispered something under his breath in his language.
He didn't spit.
He didn't shout.
He just said it like a prayer.
The animal stepped off the road slowly, like it was doing us a favor.
We drove on.
Nobody talked.
The entire truck felt like it was filled with a thick, invisible fog.
Back at the house, Marin's aunt asked, ''Did you see something?''
Marin's uncle nodded once.
Her aunt's face tightened.
She looked at us and said, ''You don't go anywhere now.''
Jonah finally broke, not in a dramatic way.
He just said quietly, ''What is happening?''
Marin answered him in the only honest way, ''I don't know.''
Then, after a pause, she added, ''But I know it's not nothing.''