Against the Wild Page #6

in the emergency bag.

I could have started it

without the matches.

And let me guess.

You learned how to do that

at Cub Scouts.

Yep.

One sandwich each

for dinner.

What about Chinook?

I guess he gets some too.

Only fair.

You really liked

Cub Scouts, didn't you?

I guess it was okay.

So why did you quit?

I didn't quit. Dad did.

What do you mean?

Well, he's the one

who signed me up.

We were going to do

all this cool stuff,

like camping

and contests and stuff,

but he was always too busy,

and all the other dads went,

and I felt

like a stupid orphan.

Well, his work

is just so far away, Zach.

Well, remember how he was

coming on the weekends?

Still never did.

It's just because he's so busy.

Yeah, well, he's always busy.

Hey.

No luck, I assume.

No, nothing.

What do you think

their chances are?

We got plane wrecks

up there from the '60s

that we still haven't found.

Really?

Might as well be the Amazon.

This forest is just as dense.

That's provided they survived

impact, of course.

Oh, those poor kids,

they're so young.

Yeah, and we got

another concern.

What's that?

Mating season

for the grizzlies.

Males will be on the prowl,

very grumpy,

looking for a fight.

Well, let's just hope

we find them first.

Are they really

getting divorced, Zach?

I think so.

But why?

I know Mom

was always complaining

about Dad

being away so much,

but maybe now she wants him

to stay away.

Or Dad just doesn't

want to be around Mom...

or us.

Is it our fault?

Did we do something wrong?

No, no, of course not. No.

Well, we fight a lot.

Hannah, they're not going to get

divorced 'cause we fight a lot.

How do you know?

What is it, boy?

Hannah, there's something

in the cave.

Is it a bear?

How should I know?

You said there

wasn't a bear in here.

Well, I didn't go

all the way back.

That wasn't very thorough.

Get away from me!

Get away from me!

It was birds, just birds.

Just birds, no bear.

How do you know that?

What if the bear

scared the birds?

I better go get Chinook.

Wait. Wait.

Do you hear that?

Do you hear that?

- Hear what?

- A helicopter!

- Zach, there's a helicopter!

- Come on!

Where is it?

- It's up there!

- Hey! We're down here!

- We're down here!

- We're down here!

- We're down here!

- Hello! We're down here!

- Over here!

- We're down here!

- Down here! Come on!

- Down here!

- Come on down!

- We're down here!

- We're down here! We're here!

- Here!

- We're here!

We're down here!

- We're down here!

- We're down here!

Hello!

We're down here! Whoops!

We're down here! Hello!

Look over here!

- We're down here!

- Down here!

- We're down here!

- Come here!

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