Jesse
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Appearances Over Time
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She checked and said the nearest bear activity report was 14 miles south and three weeks old.
She asked if I wanted someone to come up.
I said no.
She said to call back if it happened again.
I spent that day convincing myself it was a bear.
Black bears climb.
They're curious.
They investigate structures.
A bear on the roof of a relay station wasn't common, but it wasn't impossible.
The claw marks on the wall supported this theory.
The smell could have been a carcass the bear was feeding on.
Everything fit if you wanted it to fit.
I wanted it to fit.
Five days passed without incident.
No smell, no sounds, no roof visitors.
I started to relax.
I went back to my routine, check repeaters, log readings, read, hike, eat, sleep.
The weather turned and the rain came back, steady and gentle, the kind of west side rain that lasts for days without ever getting heavy.
The forest went back to its normal, dripping, breathing state.
Then I found the elk.