About an hour or two later, after the sun had disappeared and the sky was finally dark, I’d left the home of the man whose driveway we’d stopped at, and had made my way with Bluey back to the house of my parents. There are no streetlights in their neighborhood, because a city ordinance forbids it, and so I’d used the flashlight on my phone, that I could shine it on the road and we could see where we were walking.