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more.  There were people out there but they were few and far between.  He tried to make Jocelyn more human but it wasn’t near the same.  Living alone in this situation tended to make you a hard person but sometimes the loneliness was just overwhelming.  He had considered leaving his little safe haven in search of others but he couldn’t talk himself into it yet.  The last vestige of the sun slipped below the gentle waves of the lake and the sky began to rapidly darken.  He ate the last of the ice cream and placed the container on the floor.  He took a large pillow and stretched out in the swing and was gently rocked to sleep.  He woke up a couple of hours later shivering from the cold.  The temperature had dropped from a comfortable 72 degrees to 58 degrees.  Marcus could tell that the fall weather was coming and it would be in full swing before long.  He picked up the container, went into the house, and went to bed. 
     

Chapter 5
    Early the next morning he showered, dressed, ate, and loaded up the SUV.  He also hooked up the dump trailer to the SUV.  He would need it to dispose of the beast when he had made the kill and if he was successful today, he would also need it to load up the provisions that he had found at the log house.  He loaded the ZF7 into the SUV and got in. 
    “Ignition: On”
    Although it was almost silent you could hear the slightest hum as the SUV came to life.  The instrument panels all lit up and the steering wheel moved and locked out into position.  Marcus flipped on the sensor array and double checked all the readings.  Everything checked out. 
    “Command: Zero, Two, Five: Sleep mode.” At his command the SUV instruments and arrays all blacked out. Marcus then got back out and went into the smaller outbuilding.  This was where he stored all the different animal meds and other animal related items.  It was also where he stored his tranquilizer guns.  He had three hanging from the wall of the small building.  He took one of those along with a box of tranquilizer darts.  Going outside, he went to his ATV, loaded the gun, and stepped astride the machine. He turned the ATV on and reached in his pocket and pulled out a very small ear piece and inserted it in his right ear. 
    “Jocelyn: Give me the precise location of the goats and their movement.”
    Thru the ear piece Jocelyn stated, “Sector 9, North Northwest, at lake’s edge.”
    The display on the ATV lit up and Marcus could see small red dots where the herd was. Marcus gunned the ATV and sped toward the direction of the lake.  The forest here wasn’t as dense as it was in the southwestern sector.  He made good time with his ATV and was within a hundred yards of them in only minutes.  He stopped the ATV, got off, and took the tranquilizer gun off his shoulder.  Marcus wasn’t worried about spooking them.  Although they had been on their own for a while, they still were domestic animals and he had even been able to get close enough to pet them.  He quietly made his way toward them.  The goats were in the middle of a large cluster of briars and weeds.  He would never understand goats.  There was plenty of good grass and other things to eat in the area and they were eating briars.  Go figure.  A few yards to the left of the others was what appeared to be an old female goat.  After watching the herd for a few minutes, he was able to tell that she was the only female without a kid.  He eased over closer to her.  After a few minutes, she noticed him moving toward her.  Instead of running away, she lowered her head and starting making her way to him.  She was about fifty feet away from him when he shot her with the tranquilizer gun.   She jumped a little and turned to run but then stopped again.  Moving forward ever so slightly, she stumbled and fell.  Marcus moved in quickly and checked her.  She was out like a light.  She must weigh a good sixty pounds.  He taped up her hooves and slung her over