We rode on our horses for several minutes, in the direction which Gama had told us his attackers might have come from. Still, there was no sign of them or their tracks. It was almost an hour later that Steve saw some tracks. They were mixed tracks in the sense that, they were owned by not only humans but by animals as well.

We all came down from our horses to take a first-hand look by ourselves. Steve pointed to the direction where the footprints seemed to be heading. "Gama was right, his attackers did come from the north," he turned towards the Alpha while squatting on the ground. "What...