Re: The New Year
Santa's trail was weak to begin with. It had been only the twice he had been near Cisco's trailer. To retrieve the truck and to return it. It continued in this faint trail until halfway along the journey back into town. It diverted then into two forks. Once scent-trail cut through the greenery and followed the road, bare and exposed and salted that led along the water to the expensive houses that nestled close to the water-side. The other followed the main road back along to town. Both were equally as strong, and that was far stronger than the wisp of presence that the trailer had.
If followed toward town, it would become steadily stronger, abruptly ending at the end of the town that cleaved into the Neighborhood. If followed along the water, it skipped a number of houses before ending at a specific clot of glass, stonework, slate and brick that was cut into the woodland.