Traveling downhill was generally much easier than traveling uphill, depending on the season and the terrain. I considered this, as well as what I knew of other animals such as myself, animals such as those likely to be following me, and what also they knew of us as a species; and what they knew of me in particular. Of these things, these animals; it could be fairly said that for the most part,...

I awoke with a sudden jolt of adrenaline, startled by a noise of unknown origin from further within the unseen recesses of cool and gloomy cavern where I had sought refuge; reborn from hellish nightmares, terrible visions from long ago, once again into a hellish current reality. I was cold, and naked; my mind was in utter chaos, and my body was wracked with intense pain, fresh wounds compounding...