Evil in the Woods by Kevin M. Moehring

Author:Kevin M. Moehring [Moehring, Kevin M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781732156708
Published: 2018-05-02T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

With sweat dripping down his face, Mitch keeps his gaze affixed on the forest floor. While he was climbing the tree, he had no real intention to get this high off the ground. His resting place is more than fifty feet off the ground, making it nearly impossible for him to hear footsteps if the bad men were heading his way. It would also make it impossible to know if Stuart and Sloane had seen his smoke signal and knew what it meant. Unless they were right underneath him, he would probably not even know they were there.

Mitch is bent at the waist and his calves are starting to burn. A part of him wants to try to sit down on the branch where he is currently standing, but he knows that would make it harder for him to see directly below him. It would also make it more difficult to move and avoid confrontation should the men from the caves find him first. He decides to remain still for the time being. The morning air is still cool on his skin and the silence from being so high has given him enough piece of mind that he can think clearly enough to begin hypothesizing over who the two men could be and what their motives are.

There are literally dozens of scenarios running through his mind about the identity of the men. He didn't recognize the face of the man that he could see while he pretended to be asleep. That negates the fact that the man is a local, Mitch would surely have recognized him if he was. He quickly dismisses the notion that either of the two men are somehow related to the events that happened at Graham Park during the offseason. The feds were thorough in their investigation leaving no stone unturned and little chance that two men would have escaped without anyone knowing they were there.

Mitch can't get past the way the man looked. The shaggy beard, loose fitting clothes that appeared to be sloppily made and the skin on his face looked more like leather. These physical attributes lead Mitch to deduce that the man is some kind of outdoorsman, one of the people like the sheriff has seen on television who choose to live out in the woods and survive on what they can hunt or gather. His father, when he was still alive, would often watch the nature shows that followed people who choose to live off the grid and off the land. This would justify the way the man looked, but it would not explain the horrific acts the man was carrying out.

Mitch thinks back to seeing the body of Deputy Carter for the first time. The wooden stakes exiting the back of the man from his torso and skull. He remembers the piercing sound of the axe contacting the stone, just as clearly as he heard it when he was still in the cave. The sound alone was traumatizing and

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