"Are you seeing this?" a voice whispers off-camera—Leo’s voice, sounding younger, more breathless.
The camera pans to his friend, Sarah, wrapped in a scarf so thick only her eyes are visible. She’s holding two cardboard cups of cocoa. She laughs, a sound that gets muffled by the wind, and points toward the woods behind the truck. For a split second, the camera catches a pair of eyes reflecting the light—a fox, or maybe just a stray cat—before the screen goes black. VID_20221107214232.mp4
Leo stared at the frozen final frame. He hadn't seen Sarah since she moved away that December. The video was only twelve seconds long, but it held the entire atmosphere of that night: the smell of woodsmoke, the sting of the cold, and the quiet realization that some moments feel permanent right until they vanish. "Are you seeing this