Chapter 4 Eyes in the dark

The sound of wolves howling woke them up. They must have been very close because Alex could see their shadows moving in the moonlight. Their shadows could be seen on the sides of the tent running back and forth stopping every once and a while, then started running again.

"What the hell is going on," Asazi asked sitting up looking around.

"I don't know, wolves usually are scared of humans," he unzipped one of the windows of the tent and looked out. He could see eyes glowing in the dark of the woods. Staring at him with there piercing eyes. He could feel them looking at every move he made. Another pair appeared out of no were then they both disappeared. A long lonely cry of a wolf filled the air with an eerie sound. Alex could hear his heart beating loudly in his chest, he zipped up the tent and sat next to Asazi.

"What are we going to do?" she asked.

"I'm sure they will leave in a few hours," Alex said he looked over and saw Asazi looking at him with disbelief in her eyes. He really didn't believe what he had just said either. Hell they could stay for a few hours or the rest of the night he didn't know. He could feel his shoulder hurting again, he put his hand in his coat and pulled it out and saw blood on it.

"Damn," he whispered to himself. He looked around in his pack and found some pots. He ran outside and started slamming them together. The loud pinging sound could hardly be heard over the sound of the blowing wind and howling of the wolves. His eyes were squinted as the wind blew snow at his face. It felt like millions of little needles jabbing into his face. He listened and could not hear any howling it had stopped for now and in the trees he could not see any eyes piercing there gaze at him. Suddenly out of the corner of his eye he could see something coming at him fast. The huge animal ran towards him and stopped and looked at him. Alex could not make out what it was, it just stood there looking at him. Alex could almost feel the animals eyes looking him over studying his every move like it was looking into his very soul. At times it seemed that it was on all fours then standing on two legs then back down on all fours. It stood there for about a minute then ran off into the woods. Alex slowly walked over to the tent. A cry of a man filled the air then the cry turned into a howl. Alex just stood there listening, Asazi got up and stood beside him.

"What is that?" she asked

"I don't know," Alex said.

"What ever the hell it is we should get back in the tent," Asazi said grabbing him arm.

"Ya that sounds like a good idea.

Asazi sat down and sighed "Do you think we will live long enough for someone to find us?" she blurted out not even looking at him.

Alex sat down next to her. "I don't know.all we must do is keep on living anyway we can. When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

Asazi looked over at him; "Alexander Graham Bell said that ".

"Ya, how did you know that?" Alex asked.

"I just heard it someone say that once."

A long howl broke out near by. Asazi jumped and moved a little closer to him. "It's all right Asazi," Alex whispered.

She looked over at him. "I'm not scared I'm just."

"Tired," Alex said.

"Ya tired," Asazi retorted.

"We should get some sleep, that doesn't take energy. In the morning we'll figure something out." They both laid down and tried to sleep. Alex had his hand in his coat trying to stop the bleeding. His wound was starting to really hurt. He finally fell asleep, or past out from the blood lose he really didn't know when he woke up in the morning. He opened one eye and looked around. It was still dark, he breathed out and watched as his breath rose to the top of the tent then disappeared. He rolled over carefully and saw that Asazi was gone.

"Shit!" he said to himself. Alex got up and opened the tent and looked around and was surprised to see Asazi sitting in front of a fire.

"Your finally up, thought you were dead," she walked over to him and handed him a metal cup full of coffee.

"Thank you," he looked down at it. Should I drink this? She could have put poison in it. He was a little hesitant but eventually his stomach won him over and he ate it. They packed up the tent and the supplies. Alex looked at the sky it was a dark gray and looked like it was the start of a storm. He let out a long sigh at the thought of the long road ahead. He opened up his coat and saw that his shoulder was better but was still very painful. Alex looked around and could hardly see anything it was still very dark. The moon was in the sky and was all washed out, it looked almost like a smug of white in the sky.

He started to walk around their campsite making sure they didn't leave anything behind. In the dim light of the moon he saw tracks they were from the wolves. They had been circling the tent all night. Alex felt a little uneasy at the thought of wolves hovering around them all night. It was also very odd that they would do that. He was no biologist but he sure the hell knew that wolves shouldn't be doing that. He glanced over and a shudder ran down Alex's back, as he saw some blood near by. He walked over to it and crouched down and looked at it with curiosity he heard something break some twigs he looked up and saw something out of the corner of his eye.