I should have destroyed the hummingbird. Could have tried to find a way to save myself. Remained frozen instead. Not because of the mystery of the word “salamander,” but because of the blank spaces between hummingbird and salamander. The more I stared at the piece of paper, the more those lines of.…. . ate at me. Something watched me from those coordinates, and if something watched me, I was already involved. Code or symbol, distress signal or warning?
