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Probably nothing, probably a deer, but I want to ask people who know the down better than me. Walking back over the top at dusk last week there was a figure up on the skyline, tall, dead still, watching the light go. I waved, daft townie that I am, it didnt move, and coming down the slope when I looked again it was gone. No sheep, no walker. Ive talked myself into a deer or a fence post. But it didnt stand like a fence post.

It could very well be a roe deer, dave. A roe stood broadside on a skyline at dusk looks startlingly like a tall person, the stillness is what fools you, and I have flinched at it myself with twenty years of knowing better. I will not tell you what you saw. Only what it might have been. The down at dusk plays tricks, and I will own a few of them I have never quite explained to my own satisfaction.

There have always been Watchers on the high places, dave. The old folk knew to give them a nod and pass on, and not to make a study of them. I do not say be afraid. I say be courteous, and let it watch the sun down in peace.