Melissa looked out the window again, trying to discern what the actual shape of the large shadow casted against the mountain was, but she got a different answer this time, yet again. Last time it had been a cougar, now it was a goat running backwards. She giggled and turned to Richard who was quietly driving the car, and hadn’t said a word for the past two hours they'd been on the road.

"Avalors is right," she said. "The shadow changes all the time we move. Beats me how I never noticed that. I would like to know the theory behind it."

Her boyfriend only nodded and she smiled. For...