Wild Bobcat Approaches A Woman, and She Decides to Follow

Her stomach twisted. Who would set traps like this? Hunters? Poachers? She wasn’t sure which was worse. The thought of running into them while she was lost and alone made her skin crawl.

She turned in a slow circle, scanning the trees. Everything was still, but the silence felt different now—too heavy. The forest no longer seemed like an escape. It felt like a trap.