vs bear

  And it was true. The bear had come for the meat but the problem was that Brian lay between the bear and the meat, and the bear cuffed him to the side. As it was it wasn’t much of a cuff — nowhere near what the bear could have done, which would have broken Brian’s legs — but the bag was zipped and Brian became tangled in it and couldn’t move fast enough to stay out of the way so the bear hit him again.

  This time hard. The blow took Brian in the upper thigh and even through the bag it was solid enough to nearly dislocate his hip.

  He cried out. “Ahhhh…”