Word spread faster than anyone expected.
By the following morning, riders passing through Maple Avenue were already looking toward the ledge.
And this time there wasn’t just one bottle.
There were three.
They were lined up neatly, spaced evenly apart, all sitting in the narrow band of shade created by the old laundry building. Condensation dripped slowly down their sides as the day warmed.
By noon they were gone.
The next day there were five.
Then seven.
No one ever saw who left them there.
But someone clearly had.
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