MIKADEMUS's blog: "REFLECTIONS OF A LYCANTHROPE"

One of the strangest happenings traveling in my country of WolfHaven occurred in the summer of 2009 while I was hauling a wall cabinet out to our place. The cabinet is heavily built so I strapped it to a two wheeled dolly to make it easier to move and secured my back pack to it along with a water bottle to keep hydrated in the summer heat and the trail is very rugged in places so it makes for slow going when you move any thing as there are no roads here. I've heard it said that traveling in a forest can play tricks on a wolf which is especially true at night so night travel should be two or more as it is less likely to wander off trail and become lost. In this particular instance I was traveling in early afternoon and know our route well so I had no concerns about my situation as it was fairly routine. I reached a point where I decided to stop for a break and a splash of water only to discover my water bottle was missing. Having glanced back less than a minute before I had seen it neatly secured so logic told me it had just fallen off and was no doubt only some tens of feet back on the trail. That being the case I left my cabinet and wheeled dolly on the trail and proceeded back finding my bottle about seventy feet back just like I thought I would. Having retrieved my water I started back to where I expected to find my cabinet and quickly realized something was not right. My cabinet, dolly and backpack were all missing even though I had only been gone about a minute. This left me stunned as I was in the middle of the wilderness which meant it was only a remote possibility that there was anyone else out there. I started doing spiral circles off the trail where I felt the cabinet should have been and after about two minutes of searching I found my property about twenty five feet off the trail obscured from direct view. I pondered at length how this situation might have come about and came to the conclusion that I when I stopped for a drink I had just unwittingly wandered off the trail and when I walked back to retrieve my bottle I was back on the trail again. Having the bottle in my possession I then returned for my cabinet and dolly only now I didn't wander off the trail and couldn't find them as they were obscured from direct view. There is a big hole in this theory though..... the place I found the cabinet and dolly did not remotely look like a trail as there was no place to navigate through the dense bushes. If I had accidentally wandered off the trail to that spot it should have been abundantly clear at that point that I was in the wrong place but I had stopped to have a drink, not because I couldn't get through the trees. Looking at where I found it, it looked to me as though it had been placed there to hide it from view...... from me ! Perhaps the spirits of the forests of WolfHaven like to have sport with solitary traveling wolves to alleviate boredom. I will make great effort not to get on their wrong side when I am out here traveling in their domain. -the man of pech merle.