Grabbing the controls, Jonathan manually steered the drone back toward the coast as rain blurred the camera view into a smeary mosaic. His relief was palpable. He hadn’t destroyed the expensive gadget in his recklessness after all.
As the lighthouse came back into sight, Jonathan let out a breath he hadn’t realized he was holding. But circling lower, the drone’s camera panned over an object half-hidden in the trees. Jonathan froze. There was something off about it that gave him pause. An uneasy feeling settled in the pit of his stomach.