Waban's streets do not run straight; they bend around the hill and drop away in short, steep pitches that snow makes interesting. Above & Beyond Tree Care spends those nights on them, plowing driveways and clearing walkways and the stairs to the door. Storms arrive here quietly, the flakes coming sideways past the streetlamps and stacking on the hedges until the whole village goes soft-edged. The satisfaction is in the last pass: a drive scraped down to dark asphalt, a path wide enough for two, the slick places on the grade treated before dawn. Newton wakes up, and the hill is passable again.