Her voice was weak, but the words were clear enough to make my entire focus shift.
This was not only about rescuing her from the animal in front of me.
Someone had put her in that situation.
And before the night was over, I needed to find out who.
The rescue became the first step of a much bigger mystery.
Because the most frightening thing on that empty road was not only the snake.
It was the possibility that the woman had never been alone there by accident.