Chapter 9
Then from the light of the fire I could see
what looked like two people. Relieved it wasn't a bear I hollered out, “Hello
there!”, but they just kept walking. I stood up and walked closer in the
direction they were and again called out, “Hello there!”. Again, they didn't
respond or even slow down. Puzzled I
stepped closer, trying to maybe catch their eye but they didn't seem to even
look my way. I thought it was strange they wouldn't have come over especially
with me having a fire. I walked over closer to the trails edge and as I watched
them walking away, I noticed something strange. They looked blurry to me kind of
like when you look at something over an open flame, that kind of wavy look. It
seemed like it was right in front of me as if I could touch it. Again, I was
puzzled not knowing what to think. Maybe I got smoke in my eyes earlier but
dismissed the thought because I had just been reading the maps and papers and
they weren't blurry. I looked back
toward the fire and everything looked fine. Then I looked back toward the trail
and it was blurry. I was thinking maybe it was fog from the temperature
dropping but it still was weird. I was right at the edge of the trail and this
had me really feeling uneasy. First the whole flash of bluish light and the
explosion or whatever that was, then the two people that totally ignored me, and
now this blurriness that seemed to be right in front of me. I reached out my
hand and slowly tried to feel if it was a foggy mist. When I put my hand forward,
I totally freaked myself out. My hand
seemed to disappear in front of me. I
quickly pulled my hand back and jumped back, then half stumbled over to my tent
and fire. I just kept looking in that direction trying to tell myself it was
only a thick fog, but then I started to really think about what I had just seen.
If it were fog, then how could I see the trail and the two people walking past.
I stood there for a few minutes then sat
down on the log, my eyes fixated on the trails edge and whatever that blurry
stuff was. I wanted to crawl in my tent
and try to go to sleep. Maybe by morning everything would settle down and it
was just me jumping to conclusions. I
looked all around me then I noticed the stones. I reached down and slowly touched one. They
weren't hot or anything, so I grabbed them both and placed them in the satchel
along with the papers, then tied it shut and placed it next to my tent. I must
have sat there for another couple hours when I decided everything would be okay
once morning came. I took one more look around and then threw on a few more
pieces of wood on the fire, climbed into my tent and zipped it shut. I was sure
this was going to be the longest night of my life,
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