Micah
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No tracks downstream.
Nothing across the bank.
It was like someone had walked up behind me, gotten within a few feet, and vanished.
I stood quickly, scanned the trees, nothing, just forest.
That night, I kept the fire small, just a flicker.
I tried to ignore the unease, but sleep didn't come.
Sometime after midnight, I snapped awake.
No dream.
No noise.
Just awareness.
But the prints hadn't been there when I zipped the tin shut.
I sat awake until dawn.
Never closed my eyes again.
At first light, I packed in record time and started back.
I wasn't finishing the hike anymore.
I just wanted out, but the trail wouldn't cooperate.
Landmarks were out of order.
Trees I'd passed in the morning were suddenly behind me.
A ridge that should have sloped westly and east.
My internal compass, usually reliable, was scrambled.