He searched through the bog while being extra careful of where he stepped. He came upon a fox that looked as if the disease had just set in. The fox looked to be in pain. but had no yet started to decompose, Dan hoped that the pain of the creature would help keep it immobilized while he made his way back quickly to where he had left his ATV. He had to take the chance, So he picked up the fox carefully to try and avoid being attacked. He then mas his way quickly as he could back through the bog, with only incident. Where he almost became a victim to a sink hole but, only his shoe was lost.He finally made his way to his ATV. he loaded the fox into the bed of it. As set the fox down he noticed that the feet and tail of the creature had started decomposing. The pain the fox had been felling finally become unbearable and out of fear of more he lashed out and bit Dan. The fox's bite had not only broken skin, but had also left a few of the foxes teeth embedded in Dan's arm. Dan grabbed his arm in pain. He then quickly began pulling teeth out of his arm in agonizing pain. he then pulled a old rag from the back of his seat and wrapped his arm with it to help control the bleeding. He then pulled himself into the ATV , started it and made his way to the town of Merrish.  

      The night air was damp, the ground was soggy, from the rain that had just pasted, and the heat had finally set in. Scotland moors where no place to be in the summer, but Dan loves to be in the moor, he especially loved to be near the bogs of the moor and  to watch life as it should be. Not in the since of the butter fly is beautiful, but what he liked to watch is more the food chain and the practicality of the pecking order. The thing that was strange about today was the fact that there was a growing absence of life especially in the bogs of the moor. Plant and moss were dying right in front of in a matter of minutes. Animals that were alive and well the day before were now in great pain and decomposing.

       Dan was never one to be scared of abnormalities, but this one was just to bizarre to let go. He knew he would need to proof before anyone would believe him or even begin to investigate what he was seeing. That in its self posed a problem, for he wondered if the animals would attack if he tried to move them. or even worse what if what ever was going on was contagious, what if he had already caught whatever disease was causing this if so he would perish in the same manner as they were. This idea lit a fire in Dan which made him throw caution to the wind. He decide he needed to pick up a animal large enough that it wouldn't be dead before he made it to the? Well he wasn't sure were to take the animal but he would deal with that after he figured out what he was going to take.