stepped back, and tried to compare its shape with animals I knew. I even tried to imagine how something like this could have ended up on a roof in the first place.
Was it possible that a bird had carried it there?
Could it have fallen from a nearby tree?
Was it a small animal that had somehow managed to reach the roof?
Or was there another explanation entirely?
Every possibility seemed reasonable for a moment, but none of them completely explained what I was seeing.
The strange thing was
