10:4

The weather was slowly turning. It wasn’t cold, but the heat was slowly seeping out of the ground, leaving an all but undetectable chill. The days were now marked not only by the passage of the sun across the sky but by the flow of warmth that invaded the air in the mornings but drifted off as evening approached.

The shorter days masked this desertion of summer’s ardor so many people went about their daily lives, not realizing that fall was upon them. But if one stood quietly, and experienced the day as it tumbled past, the sharp cycles of autumnal fluctuations were obvious and more than a little discomforting.

Edward thought it was a bit to cold for standing around waiting. But unfortunately that’s what the situation called for.