Caught by the Bear by Adele Niles
Author:Adele Niles [Niles, Adele]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Adele Niles
Published: 2019-10-29T16:00:00+00:00
Chapter 11
Coraline
I pace my room.
Okay. Three days, maybe. But four?
He told me to wait, but he didn’t mention how long.
This is getting on my nerves.
That’s it. I’m going out cryptid hunting again. I told him I wouldn’t post that picture—but I didn’t say what I’d do with the next one.
It’s a beautiful, sun-dappled day in the forest, and my spirits pick up as soon as I hit the mountain trail. I just have this feeling in my gut that something is going to happen today. Maybe that’s why I think I keep seeing flashes of shadows between the trees. And why every time I see one, I run after it—and farther away from the path.
But all I have to do is walk downhill to get to the trail because I know it’s behind me.
Or at least I think it is.
Another dark shadow weaves between the trees. I take off after it, my heart thumping with excitement.
* * * * *
At about five o’clock, I start to get a little tired and hungry. Luckily I packed some sandwiches and water. I think about going back to the path to eat, but I’m really not certain where it is anymore.
I find a fallen tree and decide to sit there instead.
I look at my phone and there’s no signal, so I know I must be on the far side of the mountain, away from Maiden’s Fork. I look at the sun through the trees and decide it is setting in the west. I’m trying to piece together exactly where I am and what direction I need to go, when I hear something.
Cocking my head, I strain to hear it better.
Singing.
But not exactly singing. More like yodeling. But with a very deep voice. That rises to something almost like…a howl?
No. No more coyotes. I crouch down behind the log and keep very still. It’s getting closer. Coming toward me.
It might be human, but…
I quietly slip out my camera and get ready. My hands are shaking. I steady the camera on the log.
A tall, skinny hiker bursts through the trees, caterwauling his weird refrain.
I nearly drop my camera, but since I’d sooner break my leg, I grab it just in time.
He hears the noise and jumps, startled.
He turns to look in my direction and I feel the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. This is one creepy looking dude.
He has a narrow rat face with pockmarks poorly concealed by a sparse black beard. Oily black curls fall randomly over his head. His sunken eyes dart about like he’s wary of something. Or everything.
He’s young, probably my age, but he walks with a slight stoop that looks like it has mental rather than physical origins.
But then he speaks to me.
“Oh! Good day,” he says. “I’m sorry if I startled you.”
I’m immediately ashamed. He sounds like a perfectly nice person. And here I am making all these high school judgments based on his appearance.
And I thought I was all over that.
I didn’t like it
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