Raising the Past (Origins Edition) by Jeremy Robinson

Author:Jeremy Robinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ancient, evil, monster, alien, scary, killer, arctic, creature, mammoth, hunt, shape shift, expedition, excavation

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The sound of boots crushing snow was barely audible as Eddy’s heart surged blood past his ears. His chest rose and fell like the waves of an incoming tide, sucking in oxygen and freezing air. He felt his body growing cold, his muscles growing weary. But the knowledge he possessed pushed him forward. If he stopped moving for long, stopped fighting, he would become a meal for the monstrous polar bear.

Exhausted, Eddy stopped and gripped a five inch thick bone projecting from the ice. He held his weight on the bone and attempted to slow his breathing, taking deeper, longer breaths in an attempt to clear the swirls of color that danced before his eyes. He scanned the area and found three choices. One, to the right, looked dangerous, filled with sharp spines of shattered bone, not to mention it headed away from the Sno-Cat—of course, that was his guess. Another, straight ahead, looked like smooth sailing; a straight path for fifty feet… A straight path would do no good. It would allow the bear to see him and give it room to pick up speed. That wouldn’t work, either.

Looking to the left, Eddy eyed the third path, a tangled web of ribs and vertebrae, like a ghastly obstacle course. It looked like the most physically challenging of the three choices, but it went in the correct direction—still a guess—and it would slow the bear down. Eddy lurched to the left and entered the congested path, squeezing between a pair of ribs. Not a second too soon.

A sound like knives scraping across a washboard sent Eddy falling back onto the ice. The bear had just swiped at him! He didn’t even hear it coming. It weighed as much as five men and could travel as silently as an ant on a sand dune. The bear had taken hold of the ribs and shook the cage, frustrated that its prey was just out of reach. Eddy pushed away, gasping for air.

He realized that exhaustion was making him careless, that he had taken too long to decide on a path. It had almost cost him his life. It was a mistake he could not afford to make again. Eddy dug his gloved hands into the snow and pulled up two handfuls, rubbing it onto his already cold face. The freezing cold stung his lips and shot pain into his eyeballs, but his mind cleared and his thoughts became sharp again.

Eddy slid over a spine and climbed through two massive eye sockets. He looked back. The bear paced, watching him. Eddy moved further down into the cluttered path, pulling himself along next to a spine, half frozen in the ice. He glanced back again, just in time to see the bear tear off down the straightaway that he had decided against. Eddy remembered Eve’s words about the bear. It was smart. It lived here. What did it know that he didn’t?

A wall of ice, frozen around a ribcage, floated a foot and a half off the icy ground like a miniature arch.

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