Cody
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I grabbed the jacket and pulled it off and let it drop.
As I was climbing down, I saw something on the trunk of the tree.
Scratches.
Four of them.
Running vertically up the bark on the side of the trunk I was coming down.
Each one was deep enough to expose the light inner wood under the bark.
They were parallel.
evenly spaced.
They went up past where I'd been climbing and kept going up into the tree further than I could see from my position.
I dropped the last six feet to the ground.
There's marks on the tree, I said.
Bud was already looking.
He walked around the trunk and studied the scratches.
He ran his finger along one of them.
His finger came back with a little bit of resin on it, fresh.
The wood had only been exposed recently.
Bare, he said, but his voice wasn't confident.
Bear wouldn't hang a jacket up there, Lenny said.
No.
They picked up the jacket, Travis's red Carhartt.