For the first hour, it was magic. He watched a barred owl drop like a stone into the brush, coming up with a field mouse that looked like a silver toy in the green glow. He felt like a ghost, invisible and omniscient. Then, he saw the boots.

Leo didn't answer. He reached for the power switch, desperate to return to the safety of the dark.

"Don't," the man warned, his green silhouette leaning forward. "If you turn those off, you're the only one who's blind."

Leo had always been a creature of the sunset, but the woods behind his house were a different world after dark. To the naked eye, they were a wall of ink. To the he’d just dropped two months' rent on, they were an emerald kingdom.

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For the first hour, it was magic. He watched a barred owl drop like a stone into the brush, coming up with a field mouse that looked like a silver toy in the green glow. He felt like a ghost, invisible and omniscient. Then, he saw the boots.

Leo didn't answer. He reached for the power switch, desperate to return to the safety of the dark.

"Don't," the man warned, his green silhouette leaning forward. "If you turn those off, you're the only one who's blind."

Leo had always been a creature of the sunset, but the woods behind his house were a different world after dark. To the naked eye, they were a wall of ink. To the he’d just dropped two months' rent on, they were an emerald kingdom.