James Allen can draw bears!!  And forgive me, Mark!  That wasn’t fear on your face yesterday~ that was happiness laced with surprise and gratitude…  So many emotions are now at your disposal it’s understandable if you don’t use them correctly, or in my case, I don’t read them well…  We are on the journey together, Ol’ Friend…  there I said it.  Could it be I have feelings for this two-bordering-on-three dimensional character named Mark Trail??  Perhaps…

So… as the bears decide who is the biggest and the baddest, Mark slinks away, stage left, hoping that he will not have to worry any longer about becoming bear chow…  Cherry and Dusty HAVE to be somewhere in the picture…  but then perhaps Mark has more trials to endure, more gauntlets to run as he makes his way back…