"Hey, eh! What's that smell?" a Canadian moose asks his brother.

"I'm not sure, eh. It smells like fish covered in dirt, though!" the other Canadian moose covers his nose with his right forehoof. They brothers walk only two feet before seeing the struggling she-bear, Haley, hanging upside down. Her left back paw is tied to a rope that's attached to a tree.

"A bear!" the younger moose brother yells.

"Let's get out of here, eh!" the older one says quickly. They turn quickly to run for the hills, but Haley looks up and sees them.

"Wait!" she yells frantically. The two moose brothers turn around to face her.

"Help get me down, will ya?" Haley asks in a spiteful, yet pleading, tone. The two Canadians turn to one another, the older one whispering to his younger sibling, "She can't hurt us if she's hanging upside down like that! Let's leave her!"

"No! I agree that she might hurt us if she's loose, but we also can't leave her there!"

"C'mon, Rutt. You can't be too sure what bear's will be like. Big bear was different, but we don't know where she came from!"

"Tuke! Help her!"

Shocked at his younger brother's order, he nods.

"Ok…" Tuke, the older moose brother, walks over and looks for the peg in which the end of the rope is held at. He finds it and uses one of his antlers to knock the peg out of the ground. Haley gasps as she feels the rope loosen. She screams as she's thrown up in the air. The moose brothers watch, emotionless. Haley lands on the ground with a hard thud, moaning in pain.

"See you later she-bear." The brothers say in unison as they turn again to leave.

"Wait!" Haley calls after them, once again.

They turn back to her, "What, eh?"

"Do you know where the lights touch the Earth?" she asks, her heart full of hope.

The brothers look at each other, blinks, turn back and say, "Nope!" Haley's heart sinks as she buries her face in her paws.

"Sorry we can't help you, eh! In case we see you again, though, we'll introduce ourselves. I'm Rutt and that's my big brother Tuke!" the smaller moose says in a chirpy voice. The tone in his voice reminds Haley of Leita a little bit. She shakes off the memory knowing that this isn't the time to sulk.

"How's it goin', bear?" Rutt asks in a happy tone, although not as chirpy as the younger brother.

Haley growls softly and says, "Don't call me that!"

"Oh, um she-bear?" Tuke asks.

"No! I'm not a bear at all!" Haley spats at them. The brothers stay silent for a moment, look at each other, and then burst into a fit of laughter. They both fall onto their backs, kicking their hooves around as they laugh hysterically.

"What's so funny?" she growls angrily.

"N-Nothing! I-It's just that…." Rutt can barely finish his sentence since he's still laughing.

"It's what?" she yells at him.

"You don't think you're a bear!" Tuke finishes his sentence just as he takes a breather from all of his laughing.

"Of course not! I'm a human girl!" Haley says, shocked that he doesn't believe her.

Rutt stands up, his laughing has now ceased. The moose brothers look at each other and then turn away to whisper. Although Haley can't understand what they're whispering about, she can hear them quite well. She can already tell that they're not the best at being quiet. Rutt and Tuke turn back, "So, 'girly', if you're not a bear and you say you're a human, then how did you become a bear?"

"My adoptive older brother lifted me into the sky and changed me." Haley says.

The two look at each other. Rutt speaks after another moment of silence, "Well we must be going, bye!" The two run off, leaving the she-bear in the dust.

"Hey! Can't you even tell me about anyone who can lead me to the mountain?" Haley calls after them. She groans and looks to the ground after she realizes they're too far ahead to hear her now. She gets up and stands on all fours, realizing she'll move faster this way. As she stands for a moment, she hears a rustling in the nearby brush. She turns around and narrows her eyes in curiosity.

"Ah!" yelps a small dark brown bear cub as he practically, flies right into Haley. She moans in pain as she stands back up. She shakes her head, trying to shake off the pain. She then turns to the cub that seems no more than a year old in human years. His dark brown eyes match the color of his fur. A thin lining of creamy colored fur along his neck line of fur is the only marking on his body that stands out.

"Who are you?" Haley growls, closing in on the cub that's now scrambling to his feet.

"I-I'm Koda." The cub whimpers softly.