shadow-piercing

Updated: June 26, 2025

We heard an owl hoot here and there, and farther off an answering hoot; a coyote's bark, a late bird's note, another coyote, and a fainter hoot, all as night settled. And we knew that owl and coyote and twilight song-bird were only imitations sentinel signals from point to point, where Indian videttes guarded every height, watching the trail with shadow-piercing eyes.

Margaret Hill McCarter - Vanguards of the Plains