I suspected that wasn’t necessary here. I reached inside the hide and pulled the pup to me and the coat over me as I huddled over the growing fire, pulling the pup between my legs and the coat over the two of us, trapping much of the heat under the coat. xxx18 I put one hand down on the ground as the other went to Bo’s neck for a pet and hug. Now I had to turn around to return to shore. I was more than ever thankful for that moment on the mountain pass when I accepted fully that my life encompassed a world without the comforts and options of civilization. I had lost an arrow on the first rabbit when I shot wildly rather than controlled in the excitement of the rabbit bolting
