Most Terribly Not Dead

Days Walking - 81

We saw our first wolf last night, right after sunset.
Caeled saw him first, he was coming back from taking a pee. The wolf was skirting the edge of camp, at the very edge of the perimeter.

I think it took a lot of restraint for Caeled not to scream "Wolf!!!" Instead, he calmly and carefully informed us.

We're calling the wolf a 'He' because that's what he felt like. We can't be sure though. No one was about to sneak up and examine its reproductive organs.

It was scary. He looked pretty big and bushy, and a brownish and greyish color. Every so often the light would catch in his eyes and they would seem to flash. Eep! Since we don't keep a roaring fire (or any fire - in our Authorities, Please Don't Notice Us mode) there was really nothing to keep Mr. Toothy at bay.

We got the bow and the slingshot ready, but there wasn't anything else to do. We tried to watch every direction, and it was hard to shake the feeling that we were being stealthily surrounded.

Church pointed out that Mr. Toothy was limping, and that his coat was mottled and bare skin was showing through in spots. She guessed that he might be a cast-off, perhaps an elder male banished from his pack. How sad is that! Poor thing. Poor big, scary, hungry man-eater. Compared to a caribou, I'd be a snack.

Anneli was the first to weaken and succumb to our venerable stalker.
"What do wolves eat? Can we toss him a -" She asked Church.

"Don't be silly." Church replied flatly. "That's not an adorable stray. He's a predator."

In the end, Gabe tossed a small firecracker about twenty feet in the wolf's general direction, and when it went off with three loud bangs, the wolf took off.

We kept a rotating watch all night, but no more sightings. Very Creepy. I did not sleep well last night, and during our two-hour watch Caeled and I did our best not to talk about wild hungry lupines. We just rambled on about music instead.

Jake and Anneli have officially made up! (I never did find out what their fight was about) And as such, we could not allow them to share a watch together, since they would no doubt be snogging while a pack of hungry wolves snuck up on us.

I can just imagine - -

Gabe: "Jake, Anneli - Did you guys see anything weird last night?"

"No, nothing, why?" Nervous glance between them.

"Well something ate most of Litany, and half of Adrian."

"Good God! Are they dead?"

"No, that's the scary part."

Litany Webb, signing off

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