Ice Drift (9780547540610)
“He soon crawled outside, Jamka at his heels. In the moonlight, he saw that the short tunnel to the storage iglu had been smashed and knew immediately that a bear had visited while they'd slept.
"Where is it?" he asked Jamka. He'd made a mistake, he knew, storing the seal remains out there.
The dog was already sniffing the subzero air. The bear would have had its fill, and the always-following white fox was likely dining on whatever was left. It was the scent of the white fox, not far away, that Jamka followed. There was no bloody trail on the snow because the seal remains were frozen, but Alika did see some drag marks from both the bear's paws and the seal's body. He lifted the rifle out of the snow just in case nanuk was still close by.
Jamka moved swiftly, Alika squinting after him. Then Jamka howled, signaling that the fox was gone and that he was guarding the seal remains. The bear must not have been too hungry or it would have devoured every ounce of the seal, Alika thought.
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