It took some time to skin the two carcasses. Reyes did the wolf, copying Murdock’s movements and taking his instructions. When Murdock was about half finished, he told Bass to find a few sticks and called him over to take a couple of pieces of the venison from him after he washed them in the falling water. When Bass came to take the chunks of meat from Murdock, he was instructed on the cooking. When Murdock and Reyes had finished skinning the animals, they both washed off the blood that covered them in the cold water of the falls and put their shirts on, before walking over to the rather large fire to eat.
“Why did you harvest the wolf?” Reyes asked between bites.
“I was hoping that the wolves wouldn’t have attacked,” Murdock explained between his own bites of the hot meat. “Since I had
