The sand underneath my feet me was bright, reflecting the light of the full moon above a cloudless night sky washed clean from the recent rains. The waves crashed, the moon-light reflecting on the the tops of the rollers, as I slowly meandered down the deserted, white beach.
The sand directly around me suddenly grew in brightness. A circle of light 30 feet across centered itself on me.
"What could it be?" I questioned, a slight sense of fear beginning to rise. No sooner had thoughts of some extraordinary celestial event begun to crystalize as my mind feaverishly went over the possible imaginative scenarios when, the light suddenly faded.
I looked up, and saw it--a red, flashing light appx 100 feet above me quickly moving inland. Then I heard it--the rapid thumping of the main rotor of a helicopter, it's sound previously masked by the rumbling ocean.
My eyes followed it as it moved over the first row of condos and houses along the beach, it's million candle spotlight shining it's beam down upon more unsuspecting people.
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