A new video camera showed up in town the winter she turned twenty-one. Someone from the county put it on a tripod outside the ice rink, pointing toward the long, dim road where Marissa rode. She never meant to be filmed; she rode to clear her head, to feel the wind chase her hair and to test the limits of silence. Still, the camera caught the way she sat in the saddle—unshowy, fierce, certain—and the way the light carved her profile against the white fields.