Just as the sun is coming up, the air around them beginning to warm, light making his night vision shutter closed, Reid feels vibration disturbing the calm of the forest. He senses the pounding of helicopter rotors before he hears them, in plenty of time to duck and cover. He's been wondering when one or more would show. Surely the pack is easy to spot. Perhaps the soldiers have just been securing the gates. And maybe they aren't so interested in killing the hunters as Reid ...