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Heavy snow fall was flooding the view as i observed out of the window, only a few cars parked in the parking space. Car cruising on the highway were scarse. It was already 6:03PM, long gone the day of winter, yet the light was surprisingly bright in the sky. Snow danced wildly in the wind under the street lamp. TV was showing a classical Americans save the day film; The Independence Day. What a suitable film to be played on the first day of a new year. Weather forecast said the snow wouldn't stop until the next day. Good weather to start a new year.

We stopped dead in our track in front of the hotel entrance, in the middle of driveway. For the first time i felt like i was standing in the middle of forest in Siberian, except the trees have been replaced with various makes of cars. How is this possible? Is this for real? How could this animal be existed in place like this? Yet the panting noise of some unknown creature that sounded like wolf panting was getting louder and louder, something inside me was telling me it's moving closer, fast. Yet i couldn't tell how fast it was. It's impossible. Yet it was unmistakable, nothing else could have sounded like this, nothing in my mind registered to this noise. The next thing i thought about was escape plans; no more than 15 steps to our 10 o'clock was the hotel main entrance. If i would to run to the door, the beast would have outran me if it came from in front, before i reached the entrance. I thought about turning back and ran to the side door, which was around 50 steps a