The summer I left town, I walked the fence line one last time. He stood where I had first seen him, head high, dusk softening the planes of his body. I called his name—Www C700—like a charm or a question. He lifted an ear, came closer, and pressed the flat of his forehead to my palm. It was a simple gesture, heavy with unspoken histories: the halter’s tag, the web of rumors, the nights he’d kept vigil. For a breath I let myself believe that names could be anchors and that some animals carried our stories home when we could not.