you sit down by the frozen lake you’ve spent all day hiking to through the mountains & You take in the beauty around you as the snow falls, you barely notice it’s nearly sunset as you stare at the iced over lake and what life lives under its surface you hear the crunching of snow, it sounds as if someone is approaching a few yards away near the spruce trees stands a man, as he gets closer you see he has the ears and tail of a tiger

“A human? . . . what are you doing all the way out here?”