Lake Lewisia #1248

They came down in ones and twos and fleets, in open meadows or the middle of cornfields or on city rooftops, startling the pigeons. Children found them, as children tend to be in the wrong place at the right time, and they negotiated, sometimes unwittingly and sometimes full up with terrible awareness of the stakes. Back in farmhouses and downstairs apartments, the adults slept on, oblivious to the midnight parleys with aliens and gods that kept the planet spinning along its mostly normal course.

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LL#1248