Memory From Long Ago
Panic tugged at Andrew, but a memory surfaced from school. During sixth-grade nature week, a teacher had warned never to run from a reindeer. “Sit down. Make yourself small. Stay still,” the teacher had explained. It showed respect, a signal that you weren’t a threat. Andrew never imagined he’d test that advice. Yet here he was, with no other plan, clinging to a childhood lesson that suddenly meant everything.
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