Predator Turnabout

"Sloane came upon the dead bear near the river, on a rocky patch
of ground not far from the northwest bank.The carcass was clouded in flies, and the scavengers had been at it-parts of bloody hide were scattered for two hundred meters along the shore. Sloane stopped, took in the scene. Felt the wrongness. "Something's not right here," he said aloud."

"The sense of wrongness increased as he moved, sending a chill along his spine, making the little hairs on his neck stir. He shifted the rifle in his grip a little, lifted it a bit closer to port arms, ready to snap it up to his shoulder... As he got closer, he realized what it was that bothered him: the dead animal's head. It wasn't here."pg.15 chpt.1