Several hours later, Murdock and Rose emerged from the main entrance to the cave complex and started walking down the path toward the woods and the stream at the bottom. The majority of their gear hung from various points on Murdock’s body. He carried his bow and wore the quiver with their precious few arrows. Rose, who wore her buckskin dress, walked with a spear and carried four more diagonally in a bundle behind her back. Murdock had rigged a way to tie the spears together tight enough that they could be carried silently, but could be dropped instantly by simply pulling on a leather tie at the chest. An outside observer who didn’t know better would have taken them for a frontier Native American couple.
As they usually did, they walked with Murdock in the lead. As their journey progress
