Jobe and the old man sat and looked at each other for a while. In the branches above them, a blue jay screeched its grievances against some intruder somewhere in the woods. With a flitter of unseen wings, the sentinel and the insurgent both seemed to take flight and the air was quiet for a moment. Almost in response to the blue jay’s alarm, a far-off monstrous rumble shivered in the air, thinned by distance. Heavy plodding feet thumped into the earth behind everything, then faded away...
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