"I didn't think so. That's why I mentioned it."
I gave her a sharp look.
I'd like to have known what she meant by that
but I wasn't going to ask. "And you, you were
just chatting with the cow, is that it?"
No car, no bike, not even a backpack, so what was she doing
out here, popping from a tree, quicker on the scene of disaster
than the Red Cross?
She merely shook her head, smiling a little.
I found out. There was something in her walk,
as she moved to help me bounce the car away from the tree,
that made me....