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The One That Followed Me to CVS

You expect contact at night. You don’t expect it in the CVS parking lot with your playlist syncing to the sky.

There’s protocol.
Field contact. Home grid. Night sky.
Not retail pharmacy.

But apparently boundaries mean nothing anymore.

I had just left the house — music on, intention neutral, errand basic.
But the minute I turned onto 25A, I felt it.
Red light. Too low.
Following me like it had something to say but no idea how to say it.

I pulled into CVS.
The light slowed with me.
I said nothing.
But my playlist shifted on its own — to that one track I always get when they’re close.
You know the one. The “Oh, you think I don’t notice you?” energy.

I stared up.
It blinked twice.
I blinked back.

No one else in the parking lot even looked up.

That’s when I knew:
It didn’t follow me.
It followed the signal.

📎 Entry logged as: Field Spillover Event – Watcher Logbook Vol. 1

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