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That day I got up early,
as usual, to start my routine.

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It had snowed because a storm had
recently passed. The state had cleared the

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roads. My trip was normal.
The snow didn' t stop me.

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I went my way in the company. We call it a morning race when

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I take a load and start traveling
early. It' s a long journey

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of many hours and miles. On
one of those trips I was looking at

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the snow piles on the side of
the road. The two- lane road

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was surrounded by trees that did not
end. He managed that route in a

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row and it was not easy to
keep his eyes open and his mind attentive.

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Sometimes I imagined strange figures among the
trees. If I had seen something

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real like an animal, I would
have laughed or at least had something to

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think about but what I saw that
time looked like a nightmare. I knew

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it couldn' t be real.
I decided to ignore it and keep driving.

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In those moments you can only tell
yourself that it' s not real

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and focusing on the road stopping or
distracting can be worse. The route I

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had planned lasted many days. After
loading my truck I could choose where to

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spend the night. Sometimes I stayed
in comfortable places that offered a good night

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’ s rest. That night started
like any other night, I parked,

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walked to the diner store, and
I went back in the evening to use

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the bathroom and buy the last thing
I needed before returning to my truck and

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getting ready to sleep. I didn' t check the weather before bedtime,

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something I always do no longer lay
down without thinking about what I would find

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the next day. I woke up
at eight in the morning and the first

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thing I saw was a lot of
snow, when everything died during the night

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had fallen quite snow. I got
up, got dressed and walked out of

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the cabin to see how the thing
was. As soon as I set foot

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outside. My legs sank into the
snow to the knees. I went around

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my truck to see if I could
get out of there and every step was

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harder. I checked that everything was
in order and I went back to the

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cabin, shaking the snow off of
me. I went up to the bunk

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again and turned on the radio to
listen. The news said a big blizzard

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had hit the whole region. I
went down the volume and talked to my

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boss to tell him how the thing
was. I told him there was so

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much snow that I couldn' t
move and I hadn' t even seen

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a snow- slide machine pass by. I also mentioned that the parking lot

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where I was was going to take
long to be cleared and that the tires

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of the truck needed to be changed
for these conditions. My boss didn'

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t take the news well. I
was upset and in the end he told

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me to put on my resume that
I wasn' t able to work if

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the weather wasn' t good.
The call ended suddenly and I kept thinking

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about what he said. Without wanting
to stay awake, I turned off the

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radio and settled down to sleep.
Again. After a few hours of sleep,

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I woke up and was still snowing. I looked out the window and

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saw that the snow had covered everything
so much that the footprints I had left

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before were not even visible. I
felt the urge to go to the bathroom.

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I decided to face the weather to
get to the truck stop. I

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put on several layers of clothes,
a thick coat gloves, a hat and

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a scarf that covered almost my entire
face. I left the truck cabin and

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immediately the feeling of being warm disappeared. The snow was so intense that I

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could barely see a few meters away. I walked through what seemed like an

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eternity, thinking I should have arrived
by now. I stopped and looked around,

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but there was nothing. I couldn' t see the truck stop or

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my vehicle and my tracks were disappearing
under the new layer of snow I decided

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to keep moving, hoping I wouldn' t deviate. Finally, I saw

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the silhouette of the store on my
right. I didn' t follow a

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straight path, but I had come
close enough to recognize the place. My

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winter clothes didn' t protect me
so much from the cold anymore, especially

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because the wind was slipping everywhere.
I reached the door of the truck stop

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and felt relief waiting to take refuge
from the cold. That relief was brief.

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The door wouldn' t open maybe. It was frozen. I tried

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to force it open, but it
didn' t move. I looked through

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the glass and saw that there were
no lights on and the sidewalk was not

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clear. After one last look at
the closed store, I started walking back

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to my truck. Visibility was reduced
and I couldn' t see beyond a

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few steps. I tried to get
back to the truck using the store wall

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as a reference. I was following
an imaginary line from the store to where

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I thought I had parked the cold
was crawling into my boots and my feet

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were wet and iced. He was
hugging me inside the jacket trying to block

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the wind. The snow reached me
above my knees, making every step more

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difficult. I started to think that
maybe I should have stayed in the truck

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and waited for a snow remover before
I left. The important thing was to

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get back in the truck so it
wouldn' t get any worse. If

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I got lost in the storm,
no one would come to rescue me.

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After walking with difficulty, I stumbled
upon something I didn' t see because

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of the low visibility and fell into
the snow I struggled to get up.

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Cleaning the snow off my face,
I realized that I had strayed a lot

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from my original path. I looked
around and all I saw was a white

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mantle. The store had been hidden
by the blizzard and there was no trace

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of my truck. I looked where
I thought my truck was and thought I

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' d seen a shadow for a
moment. I couldn' t be sure

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because of the reduced visibility from snow
that kept falling. Maybe it was my

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imagination. Playing a bad game,
I realized that I had been out longer

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than I planned and that I had
to find my way back to the truck.

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Soon. The snow kept falling non- stop and I felt my energy

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starting to run out. With every
step. I' d only been there

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about ten minutes. The effort to
move through deep snow was far more exhausting

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than I thought. For a moment
I thought I heard something. I looked

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around, but I only saw a
vast white mantle spreading in all directions.

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With effort, I kept going where
I thought my truck was, wondering if

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I' d start seeing and hearing
things that didn' t exist. It

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was a symptom that the cold was
seriously affecting me. Suddenly a particularly strong

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gust of wind struck me, making
me fall to the ground. For a

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moment I' d swear I felt
like a giant hand pushed me from behind

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as I looked up. The only
thing I saw was the snow spinning around

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forming small swirls. I got up
with difficulty and continued on my way to

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the truck. Every step felt like
my feet were sinking. In particular,

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I used every remaining energy reserve to
keep moving. I couldn' t afford

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to die in the middle of a
parking lot. I couldn' t even

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raise my head anymore. I had
no case when it was the same in

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any direction I looked at. At
that time it seemed impossible to find the

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way back in the midst of the
chaos of the storm and the target surrounding

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me. All of a sudden,
I ran into something hard and fell on

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my back. The snow was so
deep, I got stuck upside down.

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Disconcerted. I looked up to see
what had stopped me so suddenly for my

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surprise and relief. I realized that
what hit me was the back corner of

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my own truck. I was so
close, I almost passed by without realizing

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it. I took a moment to
rest and quickly got up. I walked

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carefully to the driver' s door, looking in my pocket for the key

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to open it. Already inside the
truck, I took a while to recover

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I felt my body numb, but
little by little with the heat of the

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truck, I began to recover strength. I took off my cold clothes and

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before I knew it, I fell
asleep. When I woke up, I

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had a sharp pain in my back, probably because of the position I had

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slept in. I looked for it
windshield and saw that the snow had decreased

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quite a bit and the wind was
not blowing so loudly. The storm seemed

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to calm down There was still no
sign of a snow- slip machine and

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it was clear that it could not
move the truck. I just looked into

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the store. In the distance I
could hardly distinguish it between the white fog.

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I decided not to try to get
there until the parking lot was clear.

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The snow on the ground was already
at least a metre high and was

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still falling a little. I went
to the bunk and covered myself with blankets

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to try to sleep again. Hours
later I woke up feeling something renewed still

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sleeping side by side. I turned
to the radio and tried to tune into

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the local station to get some news
about the storm, but there was no

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signal. I thought it would be
wise to review my provisions. Considering I

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could get stuck here for a while, I checked the truck cabinets and found

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enough food, potatoes, chips,
pretzels and dried meat. I knew if

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I controlled my consumption, it would
be fine. I also checked the drinks

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in the mini fridge. Water would
not be a problem, as it could

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always melt some snow if it ended
what it had. Making sure I had

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everything I needed, I prepared to
spend several days trapped in my truck,

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waiting for conditions to improve. After
I arranged my supplies and made sure I

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had enough food and drink, I
just had to check one last essential thing,

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the fuel. I needed to make
sure I had enough gas to keep

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the truck on and the heating running. During the duration of the storm.

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With a little fear, I looked
at the fuel meter. Only a quarter

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of a tank was ticking that amount
of fuel could be enough or perhaps not.

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It all depended on how long it
would have to wait before the snowslide

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came and cleared the way. I
knew that once I was free, I

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' d only have to drive a
few meters to the nearest gas pump.

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With your mind still on the meter. I turned to see the windshield looking

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at the snowy field in front of
me, I saw that the snow had

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stopped. At the moment, I
didn' t know how long this calm

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would last. Through the clarity I
could see the tent on the other side

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of the parking lot was closed,
the lights turned off and the entrance covered

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by snow. It didn' t
seem like someone was coming to clean all

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that up soon. The parking lot
had a uneven edge, which would surely

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make it harder to clean up my. As trans watched the scene, something

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moved. At first I thought it
was a deer by the large and wide

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horns that were seen in his head, but as I looked at it better

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I realized that it was something very
different and much bigger than any deer that

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had seen the thing. He was
moving on the snow. His face looked

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like a bald skull with huge teeth
coming out of his mouth. It was

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a really terrible vision. The animal
was there snooping in the snow I felt

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hypnotized and scared to death by the
presence of this thing. When he raised

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his head and looked right into my
eyes. A chill swept through my body.

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His gaze was intense and penetrating,
as if he could see through me

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and at that moment I wished I
had never stopped here. Just as the

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beast stepped forward, my instinct to
survive activated. I ran to him bedroom

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from the truck' s cabin and
closed the curtain of a tail. My

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heart was beating fast and breathing like
crazy. I stood there wondering what that

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thing I' d seen was.
It had been real. To calm down,

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I tried to breathe normal and control
fear. I was telling myself it

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had to be just my imagination.
It was just a deer. He used

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to tell me trying to convince me, but despite my attempts, I didn

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' t dare look back through the
curtain to distract myself I pulled a packet

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of cheese cookies out of my supplies. At about 15 minutes I felt a

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push in the trailer. It wasn' t like anything I' d felt

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before. It was like a gust
of wind shaking the truck' s cabin,

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but outside it was calm, there
was no wind. I decided to

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ignore it, but curiosity beat me. After the second push, I went

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to the curtain to see what was
going on outside. I needed to know

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if that thing was still there.
As I peered through the curtain, all

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I could see was a thick layer
of snow covering the windshield. I got

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out of bed carefully and approached the
passenger side window to see better, but

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everything was quiet. There was no
sign of anything unusual. That' s

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where I moved to the window on
the driver' s side. That'

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s when I saw something weird.
A few horns swirled a little along the

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edge of the window. I rubbed
my eyes trying to see better, but

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when I looked again, the horns
were gone. I looked out trying to

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see the footprints in the snow around
the truck. They looked like deer tracks,

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but bigger than normal. Or maybe
it was my imagination augmented by fear

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with my heart in my throat I
looked at the rearview mirror and there was

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the creature using its horns to puncture
the tires. That was very unlikely.

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Panic didn' t let me think
straight. I grabbed a stick I had

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for safety and opened the door with
the intention of scaring the animal. But

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by the time I built up my
courage and looked outside, the creature was

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gone. I' m back in
the truck. Locking the door at once.

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I began to seriously doubt my sanity. I decided to go back to

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my seat trying to forget about the
strange events. Despite my efforts, I

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could not stop listening to any noise
that might indicate that something or someone was

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nearby. Tiredness and stress beat me
and I fell asleep. But the rest

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wasn' t quiet. I had
a nightmare where a monster attacked me and

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just as in my nightmare the monster
killed me, I woke up startled and

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bathed in sweat I quickly looked around
the truck cabin looking for some sign of

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the creature that had been tormenting me
in my dream. After a few moments

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of panic, I poked my head
through the curtain to check the fuel meter.

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The needle was now much lower than
I remembered marking almost an eighth of

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a tank the shop in the distance
was still dark and the road was deserted

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with the sun setting and no living
being in sight. The concern for the

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remaining fuel was starting to grow in
my mind. Soon I would have to

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seriously consider how to keep what I
had left waiting for the aid to arrive

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before it was completely exhausted. I
wasn' t happy with the idea of

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having to warm myself up with all
the blankets I had in the dark of

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the unheated radio truck, but I
knew it was much better than running out

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of fuel and facing the deadly cold
of the night. With a sigh of

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resignation, I turned off the engine
of the truck regretting not having thought of

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fuel before, when there was still
sun and temperatures were more tolerable. My

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lack of foresight now cost me dearly. I arranged all the blankets I could

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find in the bunk, trying to
make the space as warm and comfortable as

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possible. Already tired and half worried, I tried to sleep again hoping that

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the cold would not cross the blanket
barrier I had made. But I woke

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up startled for a moment I panicked
disoriented until I remembered where I was.

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I looked at the clock at four
o' clock in the morning with a

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sudden movement. I took off my
blankets and the cold hit me hard.

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Determined to get some heat, I
grabbed a flashlight and staggered into the driver

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' s cabin. I put the
key in the ignition and held my breath

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waiting for the engine to start.
I felt relief. When the engine finally

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started, the air was still strong
even though the engine was running. As

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I recovered from the cold, I
turned my head to the left and my

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heart stopped. The window on the
driver' s side was completely broken.

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Glasses scattered over the seat and floor
with the heart. Beating at a thousand

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an hour, I slowly turned my
head towards the passenger side window. There

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pressing his grotesque face against the glass. There was the creature of my nightmare.

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Looking at me, it' s
not like he looked like the monster

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I' d dreamed of. It
was exactly the same creature. He watched

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me with his eyes dark and empty. The creature lifted its grotesque head and

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with a violent movement, hit the
passenger window, causing a big crack in

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the glass. Without hesitation, he
struck again with more force and the glass

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broke in a desperate attempt to reach
me. His teeth sharp as a razor,

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they came to me. I jumped
back, falling on the driver'

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s seat, now full of broken
glass. For a moment I thought my

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end had come. I felt completely
helpless and trapped. I sat still as

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the creature struggled to enter through the
window broken his huge head. He managed

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to get halfway inside the cabin,
but suddenly he stopped. He moved frustratedly

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trying to advance further, but his
broad horns could not fit through the opening

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of the window. He tried over
and over again, but every attempt was

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in vain. The horns prevented him
from passing completely as suddenly as he had

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appeared. The beast retreated and disappeared. In the dark. I tried to

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look around to see where I had
gone, but the night involved everything hiding

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any movement. My attention returned to
the sale so broken and at that moment

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the creature reappeared in the other window
behind me, if it were not for

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his heavy breathing and the steam that
exhaled alerting me of his presence, I

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would have been caught by surprise.
His jaw closed tightly just where my back

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had been seconds before Frozen between the
two windows, I was afraid to move

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waiting to be safe from any direction, but I knew I could not stay

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there indefinitely. I decidedly crawled back
into my bunk and closed the curtain.

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I covered myself with trembling hands and
reached the secret compartment. Under the bunk.

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I pulled out my forty- caliber
automatic pistol a precaution I never thought

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I' d need to use.
This way, I checked the charger was

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complete with ten bullets. I put
it back on, rigged the gun and

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activated the lock. This action gave
me a slight relief. My heart kept

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pounding with force wrapped again in my
blankets and with the gun firmly held in

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my hand. I tried to stay
warm. The two broken windows made the

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heating of the truck practically useless.
I had already decided that I would try

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to fix something at dawn when the
light of day allowed me to see during

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the night with that beast, potentially
lurking in the dark, It would be

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absurd and dangerous to attempt any action. I stood still as a statue watching

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the clock. Every minute I felt
eternal, My eyes were wide open and

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my ears were watching for any noise, but I only heard the wind sneaking

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through the broken windows moving the curtains
in a way that was scary in time

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I realized that leaving the truck on
was useless. The heat was leaking through

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the broken windows. Carefully, I
stepped out of the bunk holding the gun

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close to my chest and slowly moved
towards the cabin. I was turning my

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head around, making sure the creature
wasn' t waiting to jump out of

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some window. I got to the
controls, I turned off the engine,

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and just as I was going to
pull out the key, a couple of

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horns hit the window. A few
sharp teeth popped out of my face,

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I turned around and pulled the trigger
on the gun, but nothing happened.

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The creature threw itself at me again, until I realized that I had forgotten

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to take away the safe, fast
alarm. I corrected my mistake and aimed

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again, but by then the monster
was already gone. I was paralyzed with

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fear without daring to approach the window
for fear of another attack. I stood

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there as a statue, watching the
window where the creature had tried to enter.

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Then, with slow movements, I
turned to the other window. I

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was alternating my attention between both windows, trying to keep an eye on each

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one. At the same time he
trembled uncontrollably and the cold was intense.

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Fear was the thing that made me
shudder the most. Knowing I needed as

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much protection as possible, I went
back to the bunk and put on all

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the warm clothes I found, dressing
me quickly to face whatever came with the

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clothes. I looked at my head
carefully to see if the danger had passed,

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but what I saw was even more
frightening. The monster was on the

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hood of my truck hitting his head
against the windshield. Each blow sounded strong

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and every impact made me fear that
at any moment I would break the glass

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and enter. I lifted the gun
with trembling hands, pointed to his head

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and fired. The shot resonated loudly. At that moment I stopped hearing only

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a buzz in my ears I receded, but the monster did not stop.

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To my horror, the shot had
only weakened the Windshield, facilitating the monster

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' s task. I saw him
shake his head. Surprised by the bullet

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that bounced into his thick skull,
he continued to hit the glass more and

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more strongly. Before I could react, the windshield broke and fast. I

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pointed back at the monster' s
face and shot twice as much. The

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bullets bounced without effect. Desperately,
I shot twice more pointing to the chest.

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These shots seemed to have some effect. The monster didn' t fall

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or scream anything, changed his behavior
with a grunt and a look of fury.

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He jumped off the hood and disappeared
in the night. I was frantically

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watching, hoping to see the creature
emerge again. After what seemed to be

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hours of waiting, the horns and
thin ones finally peeked out of the passenger

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window. Without hesitation, I shot
straight into his face and instantly the figure

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faded away as if it had been
an apparition. I didn' t stand

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still. I jumped fast into the
driver' s seat, anticipating that the

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creature could reappear on that side.
Ten seconds later, as I suspected,

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the monster appeared again I shot again, but I realized that I was playing

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with me, disappearing and appearing when
I wanted, like in a macabre game.

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In a moment of confusion, I
threw myself back into the passenger seat,

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pointing to the empty window on the
driver' s side, hoping to

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deceive him, but instead of seeing
him, appearing out the window again,

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I felt his teeth sticking in my
neck. I had been deceived and caught

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between pain and despair. I got
my gun right under his skull and shot

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my ear. I was wrong about
the previous shots. I could hear an

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acute cry of pain from the creature. When he finally released me, aware

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of how close I was to dying, I held my hand around my neck

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and when I removed it I saw
it covered with blood. I wobbly back

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to the bunk. I ripped off
a piece of sheet and pressed it against

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the wound to try to stop the
bleeding. Then I used another piece to

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tie around my neck, securing the
improvised bandage in place. The wound'

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s still hurting. I went back
to the cabin and saw him crouching down

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on the hood of the truck,
staring at me with those empty, creepy

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eyes. I never imagined that my
situation would end like this, trapped inside

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a truck with broken windows, blood
everywhere, cold ice and snow, getting

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everything while those empty eyes kept watching
me. At one point, the creature

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crawled through the broken windshield towards me, but I thought it was my end.

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But in an act of pure instinct, I put the gun against one

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of his eyes and pulled the trigger. The sound was indescribable, a low,

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sharp cry, like that of a
demon freed from hell. I felt

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a huge urge to flee. I
opened the driver' s door and fell

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outside. Normally a fall like this
would have hurt me a lot, but

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thanks to the snow cape outside the
truck, my fall was smooth. As

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soon as I touched the ground,
I got up and looked around quickly,

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looking for a place to hide,
but everything was covered in snow, offering

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little cover. I saw the truck
trailer and noticed how the snow almost reached

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the bottom of it. No other
choice. I slid fast under the trailer

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and began to pile snow near the
entrance, trying to hide any traces of

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my presence. Once below, I
or a belly down anxiously watching each direction,

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trying to predict where the monster'
s next attack might come from.

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My breathing accelerated with every moment that
passed without seeing any sign of him.

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A growing fear invaded me, fearing
that my shot would have only enraged the

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beast rather than stopped it. I
imagined the monster razing inside my truck,

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desperately looking for any hint of me. Even though I was half- hidden,

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I didn' t feel safe under
the trailer, my head kept thinking

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about finding somewhere else to hide.
My fast eyes were fixed on the small

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space between the truck tires and the
differential. Carefully, I turned around and

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put my feet in. First,
as it progressed, space became narrower and

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narrower. The grease and oil from
the differential made me slip easier, allowing

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me to slide with less friction.
But when my torso began to pass,

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the space became very narrow and I
was stuck. Panic gripped me as I

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struggled frantically, feeling I was short
of air in that closed space. After

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what seemed to be centuries, I
managed to adjust my shoulders and slipped completely

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into the hiding place. The hood
of my coat not only kept me warm,

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but also helped hide my position.
I adjusted it just to the asphalt

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level, allowing me to lift it
just enough to observe. I stayed there

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hidden and alert, hoping the monster
wouldn' t discover my new hideout.

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The waiting in the cold and uncertainty
was torturing. During that first half hour,

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the ringing in my ears began to
wane. The only thing I heard

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clearly was the sound of my own
breath. The cold was starting to go

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deep and I' m being held
back by the layers of my clothes and

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there' s still no trace of
the monster. With the passing of another

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hour, my muscles began to cramp
through the uncomfortable position and the cold still

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there were no signs of the monster
to distract me and pass the time.

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I checked my gun counting the remaining
bullets always came to the same disappointing result.

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Just a bullet. I knew a
single bullet would probably not be enough

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to save me. If the monster
found me, there was only one thing

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I could do with that one remaining
bullet consider using it to end my suffering

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if it got ugly. Meanwhile,
the edges of the snow around the trailer

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that began to shine with the first
rays of sun the darkness that had been

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my ally during the night, no
longer protected me. I felt that I

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was on the verge of surrendering,
of getting out of my school and facing

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whatever was right at that moment a
gentle sniffing sound caught my attention carefully,

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slightly lifted my hood to look at
the monster' s head. I had

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broken the snow barrier near where I
was hiding. I was sniffing at the

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blood drops from the wound on my
neck that were leading him towards me.

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The creature turned to the front of
the trailer and fixed his gaze in my

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direction. I was completely immobile.
As he approached slowly, the monster had

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difficulty passing his massive body under the
trailer could hear him grunt of frustration.

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As it progressed, it crawled straight
to me and there was no doubt that

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I knew exactly where I was.
Suddenly, the monster let go of an

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ugly squeal and I felt the truck
shaking loudly over me opened my eyes.

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The monster' s horns had been
entangled in chains hanging under the truck,

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leaving him trapped. The creature struggled
with everything, shaking desperate to let go

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of the chains. His efforts were
so strong that he managed to move the

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truck sideways, pushing the differential against
me. I had to move fast so

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I wouldn' t get crushed.
I saw the chains break one by one

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under the monster' s strength and
finally he was free, knowing that my

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hiding under the truck was no longer
safe and that the monster knew it was

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there. I took advantage of the
moment of confusion to drag myself out,

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trying to make it as quiet as
possible. I was almost outside when I

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heard another awful noise and saw a
shadow move fast across the truck. The

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monster was coming back, but this
time he was trying to get closer from

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the other direction. I crawled as
fast as I could, thinking that if

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I looked from the other side,
maybe I wouldn' t realize that I

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had already left my hiding place.
I didn' t have a clear place

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to go anywhere seemed better than staying
in an already discovered shelter. Once standing

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next to the truck I noticed a
big red spot on the snow. It

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seemed like shooting the monster wasn'
t in vain. I looked up at

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the sky looking for some sign or
escape. When the creature suddenly appeared around

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the corner of the truck. It
was there in front of me and I

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was completely exposed. I' d
been stuck with nowhere to run. He

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stared at me. As I limped, I lifted the gun and aimed straight

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at the creature ready to fire my
last bullet. Right then, the creature

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turned its gaze away, distracted by
something. Finally, the deafening noise of

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a machine announced the arrival of the
snowslide. I turned my head towards the

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creature, but it was gone.
Apparently, the noise had frightened her.

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I saw the snowslide moving forward by
pushing the snow past my truck and towards

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the edge of the parking lot,
clearing the area. The driver, noticing

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my presence, stopped right next to
me. I swerved the machine' s

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gaze into the accumulated snow my body
was no longer giving. I made sure

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the driver was okay before I allowed
myself to fall to my knees completely exhausted

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and acheed by the effort and terror
lived, my gaze fell on the space

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that the Quitanieves had cleansed. Next
to my truck. There I saw a

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long stain of red stretching to the
edge of the parking lot. Carefully,

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I followed the stain with my eyesight
and approached the edge to see better.

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In the snow piled up, the
monster' s horns swirled. I kept

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watching them, looking for any sign
of movement. For ten full minutes.

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They didn' t move. The
Quitanieves did not know what I had discovered.

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It happened again covering the horns with
more snow. I watched another five

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minutes making sure there was no more
satisfied movement, but still careful, I

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checked that my neck was fine.
Before I went up to the cabin of

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my truck, I cleaned the broken
glass from my seat and drove slowly to

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the petrol pumps in the area.
Once there, I filled the tank in

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my truck and prepared for the long
journey home. I kept my clothes on

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for the cold and raised the heat
to the maximum, directing the hot air

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towards my frozen feet. I decided
not to call a tow truck and get

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away from that place as quickly as
possible. I had to stop in a

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village to heal my neck wound.
Good thing it wasn' t too deep.

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I never went back to that truck
stop after that night. I didn

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' t want to risk running into
this thing again. I never told the

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details of this terrifying encounter to anyone. Tale written and adapted by Ramiro Contreras