Sci Fi Story

from the previous entry...

"Would you walk with me for a while?"

"Ohh, what a splendid thought. Yes, I will. I will come only so far..." They both laughed and smiled, the man sang to the bear a couple of songs he had liked to share, and the moon slowly set through a cool, cool night.

Yes, the man was in a hurry...there were places to go and people to see. He kept urging the bear along... this is how it goes when you travel with a bear. "I'm hungry," said the bear, and the man stopped and pointed to some bushes and told the bear to scrounge. The man told the bear that he would growl every so often to remind him to come along, but that when the morning light comes they would have to leave, and if bear wasn't there, it would be ok. The bear swayed back and forth and promised the man that he would be there when the first light came into the river valley.

When dawn came, the bear found himself at the river valley. There on the shores of the swifly flowing muddy river sat two men. The bear knew the first man, but he was unsure of the second. The bear stood back but the man waved and gave a kind grunt, which encouraged the bear. He slowly approached, and the man bent down and set a fish on the ground and backed up several steps. The bear looked at the food, and man nodded that it was ok. The bear breathed heavily as the fish flopped in his paws as he tried to get a grip on it.

The man spoke to the bear. "It is the time for me to introduce you to someone that will be going with me... Urso..this is Ol' Spur....Spur this is Urso." The second man smiled and nodded, but the bear just waved a paw as he was busily acquiring fish breath. "Urso, when you are done, we will cross the river, and head to the place where I will leave the planet."


A few moments later, the bear was ready to travel, and the three headed down along the edge of the river, hopping from stone to stone as they markers that the man would point out to them. they travelled to a point where the river was shallow enough to wade across, and they saw little or nothing along their way except for trees and grasses with the occassional mouse or marmot.