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offered to use his frequent
flyer miles to fly her down and then would split the cost of a
hotel room for her if she felt that was more appropriate.
    After a couple of tense days without a
response, she finally replied that she would love to accompany him
to the concert. She also declined the hotel room, much to his
supreme delight. Danielle explained that she was not necessarily
implying anything by that, but there was enough flirtation in her
language that the possibility still existed.
    Unfortunately, the concert was cancelled
about a week in advance of the event. Danielle decided that perhaps
they should meet at a different time. Kameron’s hopes and his
fantasies all came crashing down around him. He was utterly
despondent...for about a day.
    He awoke to an early morning text from
Danielle. She wanted to know if he would like to come to Alaska and
visit her instead. She didn’t have a way to pay for his flight, but
she could guarantee an Alaskan adventure that he wouldn’t forget.
He didn’t even finish reading his message before he was replying.
In all actuality, he was willing to go to Cleveland if that was
where she was.
    She unzipped the pack hastily after he
handed it to her. She found the hard plastic case inside and opened
it to verify its contents were still safe. She found the syringes
intact and breathed a sigh of relief.
    Danielle was a diabetic, which was not
unusual for Alaska Natives. There was a higher degree of diabetes
amongst the Native peoples due to a host of reasons. Danielle was
dependent upon daily injections of insulin to help her body stay
healthy.
    Zipping the pack and slinging it over her
shoulders, Danielle said warmly, “Thank you so much,” and kissed
Kameron on the cheek. “Sorry the fishing trip hasn’t started out so
great,” she said coyly, knowing full well that any disappointment
Kameron might have felt was surely mitigated by their last night’s
activities at her apartment in Anchorage.
    “Oh that’s right,” Kameron said playfully.
“Fishing. I almost forgot.”
    “My brother will still take us out once we
get over to see him.”
    Still smiling, Kameron said, “Do I look
worried?”
    While the two of them flirted and walked
slowly, others around them were worried and rightly so. Most were
quick to surmise that something unusually worrisome and deadly was
to take shape around them. The threatening nature of their
situation didn’t dawn on either of them until they saw a man,
extremely aggressive and out of control, attack another man who was
trying to protect his family. The two fighting men fell to the
ground in their tussle and disappeared from view. The apparent wife
of the victim screamed for help. When one of the men howled in pain
and desperation, Kameron decided that he needed to act.
    He had to climb across bumpers and over
hoods to get to the struggle and by the time he’d gotten there, the
fight was all but over. The attacker was atop the other man, whose
arms and legs were still kicking but growing weaker and weaker.
Kameron shouted at him to stop but was ignored. He used his foot to
try and pry off the man on top of the other. After a couple of
tries with no luck, he finally leaned back and kicked the man in
his side. This finally produced a result, but it may have been more
than he anticipated.
    The man looked up. Kameron couldn’t believe
what he was seeing. This couldn’t be a man. He had the eyes of a
hungry, rabid animal. Using all his strength and experience on the
wrestling mat wasn’t enough as he grappled with the wild man.
Kameron knew he could beat him, but he never anticipated such a
struggle to ensue with someone who he obviously outweighed and who
likely had not been instructed in hand-to-hand competition the way
Kameron had.

Chapter 7
     
    The unfortunate reality for Danielle and
Kameron was that their bus, along with another Gray Line bus was
the first vehicle to enter the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel. As a
result, theirs was the