Hunter on the Loose
Jake was convinced there was a hunter on the loose. It sounded to him like someone was hunting the creature and had shot it with a tranquilizer to capture it.
But that didn’t make much sense, he finally decided. If the tranquilizer affected the fox so badly that it remained sluggish even days after, then whatever hunter pursued it would have caught up to it.
So if it wasn’t a hunter, what was it?