interweaved with one another, they do not know. But the cloning process must have made them identical thought processes. Zoth ponders and all the other ones instantly know what his thought was and shake their heads in agreement. Zoth being the most dominant makes him leader. Zoth says, “Now we go back to the prisoners and higher ground.” With that, in unison two by two, they calmly march, a steady trot toward Rob and Scott. Scott is gnawing with his fangs at the vine rope that secures him and Scott to the tree. Ripping and tearing and pulling with his fangs at the vine like a ravaged dog, Scott finally loosens the top of the vine enough to get his shoulder to wiggle and pull his arm out. Now with the power of his claws, he rips through the vine with ease, ripping it off him and Scott. Scott watches as Robs body slowly heals itself right in front of his eyes as the moonlight slowly drifts over and shines on his body. They hear an eerie sound of a drumbeat almost at the same time. Rob and Scott haul ass in the opposite direction, down into the valley, as far away from the wolves as their paws can take them, knowing that their lives depended on it. Scott always has to slow down for Rob. The woods were dark and the moonlight could not penetrate to heal him more than what he already was. As Scott stops to catch his breath and wait for Rob one more time, he sees a cave on a steep embankment to the left of the bluff. it’s a long shot, Scott thinks to himself. As Rob approaches, they make for the caves entrance. Scott enters and immediately eliminates the mountain lion that was the caves inhabitant, by attacking its throat, making as little noise as possible. Scott thinks, “shit, I didn’t even think about that. How could I kill such a big animal and not even know I did it until its dead and on my tongue. Must be what that hunter instinct feels like in the wolves.” Rob lays shivering in the corner of the cave. Scott drags the carcass of the mountain lion over to Rob to see if he wants a piece of this morsel that he has just found. Scott chomps and chomps on the carcass. The taste of the animals blood almost calms Scott’s urge to hunt and the anger or is it just from being organic that he has these feelings. If humans have these feelings too, how can they raise families. They must be able to control it easier than a wolf. I don’t want to live like this.
“ Rob you bastard.” Scott said. “ I mean really what were you thinking? Wolves? Don’t ya think it would be better to be the most dominant species, not trying to trump one up on it? Dumb ass.“
Rob says nothing. Scott looks harder at him. He notices he ’s not shaking anymore. He comes a little closer. He can smell the death on the animal. Robs life force has finally ended.
“ Well it might have been a strange way to do it, but you did get us off that damn L .station. Now if I can just maintain my existence after the sun rises, we will know everything. With the tag, time will tell.”
Scott trots to the entrance to the cave, looking down at the way he came up to make sure there ’s no movement out there. He slowly sticks his head a little farther out to look up at the sky. Behind him he sees the first rays of sunlight leaking out over the ridge almost strong enough to cast a small shadow. Scott gets a bad pain in his ribs, like his whole body is imploding, shrinking down. His arms grow shorter and straighter. Same with his back legs. He can feel his body shrinking down and turning and manipulating into something entirely different, but yet, shifting to a more normal wolf like identity. He bites down hard as his snout shrinks smaller and his ears grow shorter to resemble a timber wolf. Completely black with one spot of gray on the tip of his tail and florescent green eyes that seem to glow like fireflies at night. The pain subsides. Scott realizing