Tina felt her throat tighten. Hours ago, she had stood paralyzed, convinced she’d stumbled into tragedy. Now she stood in awe of a creature whose devotion had rewritten the ending entirely. Her fear had transformed into something luminous, almost sacred.
As the vehicles pulled away, red and blue lights receding into the night, Tina lingered on the roadside. The quiet pressed in, but her heart thudded with a different weight now. Relief, gratitude, and the astonishment of what she’d witnessed.