Arden and the Elk

Arden was hunting with a friend when he saw an elk in the distance. He raised his gun and sighted it, just below the ear,. There was a moment when its head turned right towards me as I prepared to pull the trigger. A gunshot rang out, but it was not from my garden. The elk startled and ran and I spun around, but Arden was nowhere to be seen. After several minutes of desperate searching, I found him slumped against one of the trees. His rifle lay next to him on the ground, also coated in blood. It seems silly to say now, but my first thought was to check his pulse. So I put my gun down to

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