Samantha stumbled backward, clutching her chest as if she could hold herself together. Just minutes ago, Pablo had been bouncing through the garden. Now he was gone, fading into the clouds. The whole thing felt like a hallucination—too strange, too savage to belong to her quiet life.
“What just happened?” someone asked softly, still staring at the sky. Another neighbor shook their head with a grim look. No one was surprised that an eagle took a rabbit—it was nature, after all. But the way it happened—so sudden, so close to home—left everyone quietly rattled.