On Saturday, Brand invites Kye into the woods. The boxer wants to find a specific hunting spot for Monday morning, the first day of buck season. Kye only agrees to the adventure because he has eaten a massive breakfast of pancakes stuffed with strawberries and cream cheese, four sausages, and a Bloody Mary, and he wants to walk the extra fat grams off.
Both men head east, away from the cabin. Marlin and Tucker own eighty-two acres of woods surrounding the cabin, which allows Brand plenty of area to safely hunt. Brand leads the way, acting as if he knows exactly where he is going. Over his right shoulder, he asks Kye, “Did you name your turkey yet?”
The day offers five inches of thin snow with a velvety white sky above the hulking oaks, drying maples, and sky-reaching pines. A soft but ch
