Around a bend a grizzly boar sleeping peacefully on a gravel bar woke with a snort and glared around nearsightedly.
From Bad Blood, the twentieth Kate Shugak novel: It was a beautiful morning, clear and cool. Mist smoked up from the surface of the water, broken temporarily by the bow of the skiff moving upriver, closing in again behind its stern. Night, in summer only a suggestion of twilight between midnight and two a.m., gave…