We were laying there just kind of in the moment when that odor arrived and with the wind being so light that night I knew whatever it was causing the stench was close by. I rolled off her just in case we did have to get up and move out of the way of a skunk wanting to get by. I didn’t want a situation where I was able to get up and move but because she was under me she couldn’t get up in time and so she be the one who ended up getting sprayed. I’ve never been sprayed by a skunk and I have stood aside (at a healthy distance) when a family of them was passing by my location. They’re actually rather cute the way they follow along behind mom, the little ones i mean. Anyways I was still on my stomach and I was looking along the ground for sign of a bushy black and white tail to come bobbing along the horizon of the curve of the ground and then for it to be followed by four or five little bushy black and white tails but instead I didn’t see anything. At first. You know how on a moonlit night you can see pretty good for the first maybe ten or fifteen feet and then if you want to see something clearly beyond that distance you have to sort of reset your vision for seeing that distance? It was like that and so when my vision started to sharpen the shapes it was seeing I was both shocked by surprise and over-taken by sheer terror at what I saw. next page |  |