Serialization: Chapter 1 (continued) "Hawkins County"

A few miles down the road from the slowly moving vehicle lay Pat O'Connor, and he loved days like this. He even stopped daydreaming about Dawn Lundin, at least for a little while. Lying in the grass atop a bluff west of his house, he gazed at a bald eagle as it soared on the warm air currents rising above the Minnesota River Valley. The weather was warm enough at 78 degrees to wear just a T-shirt with no jean jacket. Oh sure, the mosquitoes were out, but in the summertime they were just a fact of life in this neck of the woods.

The slim, redheaded boy smiled as he looked at the eagle, knowing that when he was born back in the fifties,  none of the noble creatures nested along the river. He knew where the nest was too. Two years back he found it in a dead cottonwood tree when he was hunting upriver a ways, but he stayed clear of the spot because he knew the majestic birds liked their privacy. No one ever taught him that; it was one of those things he could just sense, like he could always tell where North was.

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