i back step my left boot heel from the atv when i suddenly hear clearly within both eardrums a series of metal mice squeaks along with thousands of hustling dry leaves like a python snake is wiggling its body underneath the atv as i slowly bend at my waist and gingerly study with a pair of acute eyeballs the low and smooth undercarriage of the atv for a big bad monster seeing nothing but brown pine needles clash against the dry yellow dead trees leaves then the atvs front right tire cuts to my left like magic follows by the front left tire slicing into the pine needles like a surgeons knife .