Story Thread: The Ridgeline Thread

Across a shallow bowl of beargrass, Nate and a matte quadruped machine break their standoff. What follows is a chase, a trap, and a discovery on the unit’s housing. Read more

Alone on the ridgeline, Nate closes on a doe through frost-softened tracks and bird alarm calls, reading the mountain the way he once read a system. At forty yards, with the shot settling, something that is not him spooks the deer. Read more