Since there was nothing else for her to do for the next several hours, Shannon drove back to the lodge. She was tired and hungry, so a quick nap and some well-prepared food would do her good before the early evening meeting she had scheduled with her associate. True, the beds at the lodge were lumpy and hard, but she was tired enough to pass out on just about anything, and since the research people were such great cooks, she could gladly pass up another heart burning ordeal at Pizza Palace.
There was no one at the cabin when she arrived shortly after two o’clock. There were no tracking sessions scheduled, so Shannon assumed the other three remaining volunteers were out canoeing or shopping, and the researchers were at the office or out running wolf related errands.
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