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Blood sprayed everywhere as the bear’s jaws were knocked askew.
At that moment, the skinny man came crashing down, landing on the giant bear’s shoulder and back, then slid down along its slick hide and caught hold of the long spear lodged into the bear with one hand.
The spear was buried in the bear’s haunch, already bleeding it badly. Now, with a full-grown man’s weight pressing down on it, the pain made the bear claw wildly at itself.
That brief moment was all the skinny man needed to steady himself. Using both hands and feet, he scrambled down the tree at speed.
He had only just found his footing when the giant bear came crashing down from above and hit the ground with a tremendous thud. Mud and dust exploded up into his face.
“Pah! Pah!” He spat and staggered back a few steps. The massive bear lay prostrate, not moving. Whether it was dead or just out cold, he could not quite tell.
Six or seven people burst out from the trees, the brush, and the sorghum field, circling the fallen beast.
Gasping so hard he could barely string a sentence together, Skinny blurted, “Willow, didn’t you say that… that if I lasted twenty breaths, it’d… it’d keel over from the poison?”
He had been chased for about...
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