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Appearances Over Time
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Luke stepped over it, then stopped, backed up.
Hold up.
He crouched, pointing.
There was a footprint in the mud off to the side of the trail.
At first glance it looked like a bear track, big, deep, but it was wrong in a way that made my stomach tighten.
Too long.
Too narrow.
Five toe impressions, not claws.
A heel.
Tessa leaned in, squinting.
That's not a bear, she said quietly.
Luke's eyes lit up.
Big guy, he murmured, like he was admiring it.
I said, it's a person.
Tessa shook her head.
No boot tread.
Luke checked the next patch of mud.
Another print.
And another, spaced like a long stride.
Whatever made them had stepped off the trail, not along it, like it had been walking parallel and chose to cross.