A Night Guest



Лунева Елена. 11 лет. A Night Guest. HIGH.

Before I took part in the Expedition through the Arctic, I had lived by a schedule. In the Arctic you lose sense of time. Having 24 hours of sunlight we could start our hiking at what we thought was 3 PM but it was actually 3 AM.
Our entire being was focused on one thing: survival.
That day or night (I can’t say for sure) I was on polar bear watch while the others were sleeping.
I didn’t have to fall asleep so I looked outside for some fresh air and came face to face with a ...

…a real monster.
It was about 10 feet high, as white as snow, covered with thick fur, staring at me with big dark eyes.
The creature seemed to be a little frightened. Frankly speaking I was frightened, too.
I don’t how long we were standing motionlessly, but at last I tried to pull myself together and realized that the monster was a polar bear.
As I heard, such cases when polar bears came to visit people happened in Arctic very often.
Then I took up my mind to ask him if he was hungry. The bear caught the friendly tone of my voice and stood on four legs but still watching me. I took a sweet out pf my pocket and stretched out my hand to give the dainties to the bear.
First, he seemed to be quite indifferent to the candy he had been offered but then he sniffed my fingers.
As bears have a good nose for sweets that one seized the tasty thing with his cold lips.
He swallowed it very quickly as if he was in a hurry.
And just in a second there were already two of them, then three, four and even more.
The bears were standing in a line asking for magic sweets the had never tasted before, as I guessed.
I was feeding them with great pleasure.
Later the members of the expedition woke up and told me, that there loved a mother dear not far from the place we had stopped.
And those “little” ones were her cubs. We made friends with the bears.
And now every time when somebody goes to Arctic I tell mu colleagues the exciting story of the night guests and by all means, ask the guys to take something tasty for my polar friends.

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