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"At least the sun is coming up." Gilbert was trying to be positive, but he could tell from the ragged breathing and cursing Clarissa had been making since they left the ruins of the cabin his positivity was going unappreciated.
"Right so we can freeze in direct sunlight, this day gets better."
"Not every day is palm trees and warm weather."
"So far none of them have been Gilbert." Gilbert shook his head, but he understood Clarissa's frustration. He was kind of surprised on how far the Gillawomp had managed to wander off, he figured with as much rat poison in its stomach it would barely make it away from the cabins, but it had been miles of snow since there and no sign of stopping.
"I promise you we'll run across it soon enough." Clarissa started to doubt that as they seemed to get deeper and deeper into Alaska with no sign of stopping. Gilbert had stopped for a moment and Clarissa didn't notice and ran right into him.
"Why did you stop do you see it?"
"No I heard something."
"I hear plenty of things Gilbert, mostly just the wind blowing and my own breathing."
"No I swear to god I heard a yahoo."
"A yahoo?"
"Like the kind an idiot redneck makes in a fictional movie."
"Can you get auditory hallucinations because of the cold Gilbert?" Gilbert turned around to tell Clarissa its not very nice to make fun of him when they both heard a "yahoo!" and the sound of some kind of ATV.
"No, oh god no god damn it no." Gilbert knew what that sound meant.
"What? I heard it too! Means some people are here we can get out of this hell!"
"No its you don't know these idiots we're in for..." Just as Gilbert was talking two all terrain vehicles appeared, one full of camera people, the other full of overweight dudes in camoflage with ridiculous beards. Gilbert cursed, the god damn Mountain Monsters crew was here.
"GILBERT DUNKLEY!" One of the crew hopped down from their ATV before waving it on to the rest of the crew.
"You know these guys? You never told Doris that." Gilbert shook his head, his greatest bit of shame was knowing anyone from the mountain monster's show, even accidentally.
"Because mistakes were made in the past, mistakes were made."
"They got a Gillawomp Gilbert! God damn didn't even know those things were real, caught in one of Bill's dumb ass traps sure as day." Gilbert just wanted to disappear into the snow, to pretend he wasn't there.
"Yeah it came after us first, be careful its full of rat poison."
"Right right, they'll probably cook it or whatever these guys do, so you need like a ride back to civilization or something? You both look real cold, my name's Travis by the way." Travis held his hand out to Clarissa who shook it with authority.
"Sure do Travis its mighty cold out here." Gilbert couldn't even say no even as much as he wanted to.
"You must be his new assistant, Gilbert helped us out once in West Virginia, the boys got themselves into a real pickle, we were just making up some bullshit when..." Travis had called another atv over and Clarissa was glad for the company. Gilbert on the other hand wished he could be somewhere else, anywhere else.
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