Daniel accompanies his neighborhood friend, Sean, who has a gun. Sean and Daniel are cornered by Robert, a bigger and taller boy who demands to use the gun. Sean refuses and threatens to shoot him. Robert retreats. Sean is grazed by a projectile—a crossbow, catapult?—and he decides to go after Robert. The two wait in his backyard, but nothing else happens. An eery stillness settles. The two venture into the forest. They here a crackle, branches breaking, and realize they are being followed. The noises indicate that someone is near, trying not to be detected, and perhaps circling around them. Sean fires the gun and Daniel immediately realizes Sean has not killed a person, but a deer. Sean tells Daniel to help him bring the deer back home, so that it can be eaten. Upon arriving home, Sean’s older brother beats him up for taking his gun, though he is actually very proud of him. The brother butchers and skins the deer. The innards and bloody process nauseate Daniel, and realizes how closely a human’s innards resemble the deer. The mother begins to cook the deer, when the phone rings for Daniel. His mother is wondering where he has been. Daniel heads home. Decades later, he returns home for his mother’s funeral.