X-Files - Mulder & Scully
They were runes, Mulder was sure of it. He just couldn’t figure them out. He traced the image, inverted it, cut it up, tried to make sense of the patterns – lines and dots, repetitive but not identical.
Two hours later, as they walked out of the building, Scully tapped his arm. When he looked at her, she had an expression that he knew very well.
“Mulder, look.” She pointed to a pigeon, stomping around through the snow, and it took him a moment to notice the footprints. Lines and dots, repetitive but not identical.