What was that?
A man wandered down the street, staring at the moist brick-laid road that marked the main way in and out of the small town near the Canadian border in Washington, a mountain camp north of the town is where the staggering figure slowly made his way toward. "Why are these people watching me?" he said while glaring around at the buildings around him, most laid in the same brick as the road and painted over to look more homely, but the paint is faded and there's a lot of chipped sections that flare with a moldy maroon. A dog barked at him from the end of the street, he swerved to the alley and headed towards the old school grounds. He heard a voice behind and without being sure what they said, the man turned around to ask, but he was staring down the empty alley entrance, while the dog barked loudly in the distance. Suddenly the dog yelped like it was kicked; the man peeked around the corner to laugh but the dog was gone. "Crazy town... Everyone here has shit to do," he said sternly and continuing on the main street once again since the dog was gone. "Hey there bud, come back to the alley," a voice quietly whispered, with a rough and coarse voice. The man whipped around to find nothing but a raccoon playing in a trashcan, he wiped his face off with his sleeve in hysteria and kept going. It was only six feet away from the alley that a dog starting barking in the distance, almost like it was in the alley. The man whimpered at the thought of it being the same dog as before, but had a mission to carry out. The man made it to the entrance to the mountain pass. Unfortunately its not safe to walk on the road this late in the day, for someone could easily smash him with their truck. He waited till someone finally came by and stopped for him, it felt like days. They pulled up in a plain moving van and they made their way to the camp. "So, what brings you way out here?" the driver asked. "Just working in the old mines," the man replied. The driver laughed and said, "Well that's funny because those closed fifty years ago." He turned to the passenger side to push a response from the man, but sitting there was a baby border collie, and the man was gone.