The Park, Friday Evening

Anders was a wreck by the time he made it to the park. Kathy was gone, again, and all that was left was a strange black mark burned into the ground.

He blinked at the mark through tears he wasn't letting himself shed. (They'd get Kathy back. They had to. Nothing to cry about at all.) He was sure he'd seen something like it in collections of runes, but as to what it meant...

"It looks a bit like a bird," he observed. "See, there's its beak."

( Doing a little detective work... )