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Chapter 39: Encroachment

The term 'encroachment' means – according to a Google definition – to 'intrude upon a person's personal territory or right.'

A midnight shift Stockard Creek police officer – the end in sight of the latest twelve-hour foray overnight – was the first person to notice that first level of encroachment. He had parked on the southeast part of the town limits and got out to pee and smoke his final cigarette before heading back into the department, when he saw them. Emerging from somewhere out over the flatlands that led towards the mountains behind him, he saw four low-flying balls of light – alternating at dawn in flashes of red, blue and white. The officer was Dillon Banks, one of three Black males at the SCPD, and he wasn't remotely concerned the balls of light were aliens or UFO's or any other mysterious objects.