Early evening snow and light

See this? - says the first kid. They are both bundled up in heavy coats in the snow. They are in the tree lined pathways between their two housing estates. It's late in the afternoon and it's starting to get dark. The streetlamps are already flickering with a pink light.

The kid walks into the pool of light reflected in the snow, and points with his crooked stick at a deep triangular imprint in the snow. He walks, dragging the stick to a second triangular imprint. The second kid follows, as he draws the line in the snow through the second imprint, to a third imprint, to the triangular base of a streetlamp, where he stops.

They can see us - he says, looking up - they sometimes move if they want

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Thisway Comes
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