Wild Bobcat Approaches A Woman, and She Decides to Follow(1)
Then she heard it—a faint sound ahead, barely audible. Something struggling.
She took a step forward, then another. Whatever waited beyond those trees—that was why she’d been led here.
Claire pushed through the final thicket and gasped.
A smaller bobcat was caught in a hunter’s snare, its back leg trapped in tight wire, body twisted in distress. The mother bobcat paced anxiously nearby, ears flattened, tail twitching nervously.
She had been led here for this.
Claire’s mind raced. She had no tools, no way to cut the wire. But she couldn’t leave it.
She glanced back, realizing she had no idea where the main trail was anymore. Time was running out.
