Together they heave the deer onto the sled. Kevin's cap falls behind him and Matt picks it up, brushing off the dirty snow. It's Ray's old hunting cap. Handing it to Kevin he wants instead to toss it high over his head, to the mocking ghost at the edge of the woods. It is a silent 20 minute trudge through the snow.
Matt looks back from time to time.
He kept looking back frantically, running from the woods. The sound of his breath as loud in his head as the shots behind him. Ray shooting again and again. He could feel the heat of the bullets. You tell and you die,' Ray said when he came home.