A blurred night street rendered in thermal-camera colors: deep navy darkness with a huge yellow-orange glow blooming in the foreground and small orange lights receding down the block past silhouetted houses and poles.

beaming

To the wandering mind, the narrow downcast beam works against it. By the time the periphery has been processed, an unmeasured distance becomes an unanswerable choice. It knows this happens, but also knows this will happen again, so forward it goes.