Wild Bobcat Approaches A Woman, and She Decides to Follow(1)
The men skidded to a halt.
Claire collapsed to her knees, breathless. She was safe.
Behind her, the poachers hesitated, then raised their hands.
The second ranger moved in, securing the scene.
Claire trembled, overwhelmed. It was over.
The forest stretched endlessly behind her, but she had made it out.
She exhaled shakily, looking up at the ranger who’d saved her.
“There’s something you need to see,” she said hoarsely..
The bobcat snare. The proof. The reason she’d nearly lost herself in the woods.
The ranger nodded.
“Let’s get you home, miss.”
As they led her away, Claire glanced back once more at the trees.
Somewhere in that wild expanse, a bobcat had trusted her—and in doing so, had saved her life.
