We're lost today...

"I'm pretty sure we're lost, Abi stated emphatically. It was late and the sun had been in bed for many hours now. The trees swayed with the dancing wind. Abi swayed with them sleepily.


Bertha stopped the car and pulled out the map. "Get out the map," she sang quietly to herself. Abi smirked. "Well, I'm pretty sure we're here," Bertha pointed to the map, and then looked up to consult the street signage, "and we want to be here." She pointed west of where they were. Abi wasn't listening. She was thinking about the beautiful scenery from the mountain highway that they had passed through earlier in the day. She looked over at Bertha. The aged map was stained with coffee and mud and Bertha's face hid behind it completely. Abi smiled and then looked out the window, surveying the area around the intersection where the car was idling. Across the street were these glowing things. "What is that?" she asked Bertha.

"What?" Bertha replied, as she studied the map intently.

"Over there," Abi pointed, "What is that, glowing?"

"Hmm?" Bertha hummed, now she wasn't listening.

"Bertha, over there," Abi asked again, pulling the map down below Bertha's line of vision.


Bertha peered across the dark silent street into what seemed to be a graveyard. Her eyes darted from glowing thing to glowing thing. "I think they're crosses?" Bertha stated, with a furrowed brow. She returned to her map with the same furrow and sighed.


"Why?" Abi asked.


"I don't know," Bertha replied irritated, her voice muffled by the map, "but I didn't know God glowed in the dark."

Abi stared at Bertha with a whelmed expression on her face, taking note of Bertha's response. Abi took out a pen and paper and wrote down that apparently God glows in the dark. She tucked the note away in her pocket. "Alright, we're going to go left," Bertha interjected, throwing the map down into the floor of the car.


"Sounds good to me," Abi said, as she made a mental note to buy Bertha a new map and something with which to clip it to the car visor, "I trust you, and besides there are more crosses on the left anyway. I think we should take that as a sign."