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Appearances Over Time
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We saw deer.
We saw a black bear at a distance moving like a dark shadow through a patch of laurel.
And it didn't care about us.
But the human signs started showing up in ways that felt wrong.
Around mid-morning, we passed a place where the trail crossed an old logging road.
The road was grown in, but you could tell it had been used recently because there were tire tracks in the mud, and the weeds in the center were smashed.
The tracks weren't from a modern truck with big aggressive treads.
They were narrow, the kind of track you'd see on an ATV.
Tessa slowed.
"'That's new,' she said.
Luke glanced down.
"'Probably Hunter's.'
Tessa didn't answer.
She walked on, but I saw her hand hover near the strap of her pack where her bear spray was clipped."
An hour later we found a little pile of bones near the trail.
Deer ribs maybe, picked clean.
Not weird by itself.
Predators eat.
Scavengers eat.
But the bones were stacked, not scattered.