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alostrangerThere is a legend that says that a man who hunts alone in the cold and the snow does so at his own peril, for mother nature cannot forgive or forget anyone who challenges her will...
The wind blows through the trees and the cold deepens and it is a warning that the world ends and man has no place in the darker places. It is a warning, and a lingering one. Do not track game into the deep woods. Do not leave the beaten trails that is for other creatures to walk their paths.
Not all men listen to this however. Not all men or women walk their paths - man is made to explore. Man is an abnormality. Nature has made a thing it cannot control and it consistently tries to teach man lessons that he refuses to learn...
No matter what the consequences to the tribes when he returns.
He'd been walking for hours. Days. A few miles a day, crawling across snowbanks and down into lush green valleys. Why he keeps going he doesn't know. He's quite sure that he's been given up for dead.
Over into the spring, into the grass, smelling the verdant earth and dreaming of getting back to the ranger station until he heard it. You slip into survival, you fall into the trap of being less then human so when the noise hit him he knew bear.
A big one.
He'd conserved his bullets, trying to. Early on, into his captivity before the green had vanished and the snows had set he had feared the bears and his colleague (Brian, his name was Brian.) had insisted they just stay out of the way of the bigger creatures in the forest.
So when he was ready - he was ready and he slid between the woman and the bear, gun drawn and firing. Man versus nature as nature roared in anger and he was taken. Taken deep.
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Paul Jones was one of six rangers sent out just before the snows melted looking for Lucy Yu, a hiker who had become injured in the forest. Trapped by a snow storm, he spent two months in the cold with his colleagues as they died one by one. He found his way out just in time to save a woman from a bear attack - dragging the two of them mutually to the nearest ranger station where she was hailed as a hero, and he was sent off for rehabilitation.
Because Paul had been injured- living off a broken leg. His colleagues kept him alive, one after the other until Michael confessed that the crow they'd been living off of was the remains of the other men. Paul accepted it - until he dreamed of the stag - the stag with wolf paws who told him to leave the cave and so he left - but all meat tastes foul now and he can sense...changes.
Something else has crawled out. And it is up to the woman who's life he saved to solve the mystery.
The wind blows through the trees and the cold deepens and it is a warning that the world ends and man has no place in the darker places. It is a warning, and a lingering one. Do not track game into the deep woods. Do not leave the beaten trails that is for other creatures to walk their paths.
Not all men listen to this however. Not all men or women walk their paths - man is made to explore. Man is an abnormality. Nature has made a thing it cannot control and it consistently tries to teach man lessons that he refuses to learn...
No matter what the consequences to the tribes when he returns.
He'd been walking for hours. Days. A few miles a day, crawling across snowbanks and down into lush green valleys. Why he keeps going he doesn't know. He's quite sure that he's been given up for dead.
Over into the spring, into the grass, smelling the verdant earth and dreaming of getting back to the ranger station until he heard it. You slip into survival, you fall into the trap of being less then human so when the noise hit him he knew bear.
A big one.
He'd conserved his bullets, trying to. Early on, into his captivity before the green had vanished and the snows had set he had feared the bears and his colleague (Brian, his name was Brian.) had insisted they just stay out of the way of the bigger creatures in the forest.
So when he was ready - he was ready and he slid between the woman and the bear, gun drawn and firing. Man versus nature as nature roared in anger and he was taken. Taken deep.
----
Paul Jones was one of six rangers sent out just before the snows melted looking for Lucy Yu, a hiker who had become injured in the forest. Trapped by a snow storm, he spent two months in the cold with his colleagues as they died one by one. He found his way out just in time to save a woman from a bear attack - dragging the two of them mutually to the nearest ranger station where she was hailed as a hero, and he was sent off for rehabilitation.
Because Paul had been injured- living off a broken leg. His colleagues kept him alive, one after the other until Michael confessed that the crow they'd been living off of was the remains of the other men. Paul accepted it - until he dreamed of the stag - the stag with wolf paws who told him to leave the cave and so he left - but all meat tastes foul now and he can sense...changes.
Something else has crawled out. And it is up to the woman who's life he saved to solve the mystery.
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Date: 2013-06-25 03:58 am (UTC)People magazine was flipped through and discarded two or three times and Reggie even took a stab at the coffee. It wasn't worth it.
She's sprawled in a chair, ankles crossed on the edge of a table as the Doctor walks towards her. Dropping her feet, she stood up and turned to face him.
"Yeah. Out in the woods. Is he ok?"
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Date: 2013-06-25 04:17 am (UTC)The doctor shakes his head, "...Can I assume you feel responsible for him?"
There's a hint of a smile on his features.
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Date: 2013-06-25 04:22 am (UTC)"Doesn't he have family? I figured with him being presumed dead that someone might have mentioned next of kin. Until they get here, I do."
Who knows what mother is grieving over her lost son? Surely he had people who missed him. She's just the girl that found him, but she wasn't raised to do it half-assed.
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Date: 2013-06-25 04:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-25 04:32 am (UTC)"How long will the hospital be keeping him?"
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Date: 2013-06-25 04:36 am (UTC)"Tell him he's lucky he didn't lose the leg."
Almost too lucky, but the doctor wouldn't tell her that. He motioned with his head for her to follow him, "...The hunt for those rangers was national news Miss..."
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Date: 2013-06-25 04:42 am (UTC)She quickly keeps pace with him as she talks. "It was pretty big. I remember watching it on TV. Didn't think that I'd ever find someone out there. I'm just happy that he's ok."
When they reach Paul's room, Reggie walks in and peers around the privacy curtain. She was sure they gave him pain killers or something and if he was asleep, she didn't want to bother him. He'd earned some rest.
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Date: 2013-06-25 04:49 am (UTC)He jerks awake, "...Brian! Mikaela! -"
His chest rises and falls, "...The girl from the woods."
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Date: 2013-06-25 04:59 am (UTC)She looks over him, hands curling around the cool metal of his barriers, gaze landing on his face. She disliked the way he jolted awake and struggled to push an imagination of what he might have gone through out of her mind.
"Hey. The Doc says you'll be out of here in a few days." She draws part of her lip under her teeth briefly. "They said you had no family or anything near by. Do you mind staying with me until you're healed?"
She'd never asked a guy over to her house before for anything more then a one night rumble and the idea of inviting a total stranger to live with her, even if it isn't for long period of time, makes her uneasy. But where was he going to go when they relased him?
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Date: 2013-06-28 02:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-28 03:52 am (UTC)"I'll leave my number with the nurses. If you do need a place to stay, I've got a spare room." Good save.
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Date: 2013-06-28 04:16 am (UTC)Paul looks a little lost, "-I'll - I'll call you. see what people say and how long I'm going to be in here."
"I think they declared me dead. Is that right? I mean did they?"
Yes. The whole party was declared lost.
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Date: 2013-06-28 04:29 am (UTC)"Yeah they did. You've already been mentioned on the news. Only a few hours in town and you're a celebrity." She smiles pleasantly.
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Date: 2013-06-28 05:00 am (UTC)He closes his eyes and turns away, "...Can I just take you up on it now? Then maybe...call my sister and see if she can get me set up again. Wouldn't be with you more then a couple of weeks."
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Date: 2013-06-28 05:24 am (UTC)She watched him a moment. "You should probably get some rest."
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Date: 2013-06-28 06:02 am (UTC)no subject
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