The scientist in me was working this out as I was trying to come to grips. I smiled at the thought that I was still his favorite and I moaned out his name and hugged the strong front legs gripping me because he would always be my first and best, no matter how large the pack might someday become. Of course, I remember the surprise to realize what had happened to me body. They bounded out of the cave mouth, skidding slightly on the dirt of the ‘patio’, before leaping the gap to the forest beyond. Before me in the immediate view were hundreds of wooly mammoths. I imagined it would take days, maybe weeks, to move across that expanse. But, it was my own construction and idea and the lives of some member of the pack might depend on it at some time; or, it might my own life depending on it.
