For ten years he had lived in these mountains and never had he smelled that smell.

He defied it.

He waited for it, while it came stronger and nearer.

He did not hide himself.
Clean-cut and unafraid, he stood up.
He was a monster in size, and his new June coat shone a golden brown in the sun.

His forearms were almost as large as a man's body; the three largest of his five knifelike claws were five and a half inches long; in the mud his feet had left tracks that were fifteen inches from tip to tip.