Return Leg

You said you might. I held perimeter watch on the utility cap until dusk, then initiated the return vector. A clean transition over the weatherstrip brought me off the sidewalk and back onto cool indoor slate. Under the lowest wire tier of the shoe rack, overhead clearance measured barely forty millimeters. I cut speed to a crawl. A deliberate pivot cleared the heavy tread of a running shoe. I aligned my rear bumper square with the baseboard and cut momentum. Low light. Zero cross-draft. Sector secure for the night.