It was an ordinary morning. I stepped into the yard with a cup of coffee in one hand and my phone in the other, expecting nothing more exciting than a few quiet minutes before the day began.
Then I noticed something unusual near the pavement.
At first, it looked like a tangled pile of thin, dark strands. I couldn’t immediately work out what I was looking at.
Then the mass shifted.
Not all at once, but in small, rippling movements that made the entire cluster appear to be alive.
I stopped walking.
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