Night Wings by Joseph Bruchac

Author:Joseph Bruchac
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-01-20T22:00:00+00:00

We’ve been on the hidden trail for an hour now and we are way off any of the regular hiking routes. I’ve actually walked part of this very trail before with my grandfather, but everything seems different today. Usually when I am out in the woods, every step I take that leads me away from roads and cars and the sounds of the modern world feels like a step toward freedom. Not so today.

And there is something else. The land around us, even the sky above us, feels different. Do you know how sometimes the air seems to tremble because a big storm is coming? It’s that kind of feeling. The air has that clean, edgy scent of ozone in it.

I look up at the sky and squint my eyes. There’s not a cloud in sight, but I think I can see something way up there, circling. Maybe it’s an eagle. Maybe not. I know it isn’t an airplane. I actually haven’t seen a single vapor trail from a jet since we left the van hidden in that spruce thicket, and on a clear day like today that’s strange. Commercial jets cross over here all the time, and air force planes also use the sky over the White Mountains. In fact, I remember one time when Grampa Peter and I were walking a trail not far from here and a whole group of those little single-passenger ultralight planes came buzzing over like lawn mowers with wings. But today there’s nothing.

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