The hunters rode on deer, and they traveled six to seven days. Therefore, several wild deer were to feed them and their wolves. They moved at night. Father taught his sons to navigate the stars, and on starless nights their wolves knew the way. In the afternoon they: a herd, a flock and people hid in copses, where there was always a lot of snow and it was possible to hide a fire. They had many enemies, and the further they hunted, the more. The main danger was alien hunters and cavemen. Then there were predators: big wolverines, cave lions, lynxes, as well as wild wolves who tried to join their flock, and whom only the leader had chased away. In addition, during the daytime, herds of bison, musk ox, woolly rhinoceros or even a mammoth could interfere with movement.
The leader sensed the smell of cave lions from an approaching line of dwarf willows and birches. Lions were waiting for the herd and flock, as they successfully hunted deer, and wolves, and people. The leader ran ahead and tried to stop the herd, then rushed to the Father with all appearance pointing to the danger from the forest. It was three o'clock in the morning – The hour of the bull, but the deer stubbornly approached the danger. Finally, the pack, obeying the leader, stopped or they, too, sensed northern lions. Lions lived in families, and how many were hiding behind the low but lush trees? The leader sensed a couple, and maybe more.
Father ordered torches to light up. The sons did this by carving sparks from the stones that they had themselves. Only fire could protect people from lions. But how was the herd saved? The father decided to free the main deer with huge horns. One on one, he could take a fight with a lion or at least hold him back. The wolves drove the herd back, and hunters with burning torches remained behind a large deer, who did not even think of retreating. He could not run fast, and became sharp cloven hooves, breaking an ice crust on the grass and in the snow around him. In the silver light of the moon he was magnificent, a real miracle of nature.