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 * BOOK IV: Nikolski, Alaska-Lost in the Blind Storm **


 * Summary: Odysseus begins his adventures in Alaska in a plane over the Bering Sea. As he is in the stolen Russian aircraft he jumps out because it has no gas. He swims towards land and sleeps. Next morning he wakes up searching for people to get supplies. He does find people they help him. Afterwards he decides to head to the closet U.S Military base outside of Anchorage, Alaska. He gets stuck in an unbelievable Blizzard. He follows a white fox that is god in disguise and finds the base in the storm. He gets help from his fellow U.S. soldiers and makes his way to the main U.S head quarters outside of Anchorage.**

Hours pass on the flight from Russia while trying to evade the Russian military police and our ill fated hero Odysseus takes notice of the low fuel of the plane. Not yet in Alaska he knows that he cannot stay in the plane for any longer for he knows it will be the death of him if he stays in it. Thinking quickly he decides to make an emergency air jump. As he finally suites up and is ready to jump out with his parachute he feels a vicious vibration from the plane and then experiences death silence. In a matter of moments the plane drops altitude as fast as if a baseball player hit it out of the sky like a baseball. Shocked but not scared Odysseus quickly springs back up and heads toward the small planes side door, jammed Odysseus uses all his might to pry the stubborn door open finally as he does he quickly jumps out. Unable to use his parachute or his reserve he braces himself for a deep, cold dive in to the frigid Bering Sea. Gasping for air Odysseus looks into the dark empty sea getting a sense of loneliness all over him. Not knowing where land is he looks at his compass watch and heads east knowing that’s where the mainland is. After swimming for some hours, the waves pushing him, not knowing if he is on course anymore, he makes one final effort not to give up and as the sun just starts to rise he sees enough to see where land is. Finally he makes it on dry land, too exhausted to make camp he falls to his knees and sleeps.

Some hours pass and the unlucky Odysseus wakes up to the face of a sheep licking his face. Sewing it away the sheep runs off. Getting up Odysseus can barley think or see with a throbbing headache from early that day when escaping the trenches of the Bering Sea. Not knowing where he is, he gathers himself up and looks around he sees the sheep that he sewed off early and follows it. He follows the sheep to a flock of them where he finds a ranch. Being observant of his surroundings he sees smoke coming out a chimney, he knows there is people here on this ranch and finds the house with the chimney. His weapon locked and loaded he approaches the house and looks inside a nearby window, he sees only one man, an old man. He senses no danger, but does not fully lower his guard. He knocks on the front door and is greeting by the old man with a very warm manner, inviting Odysseus in he can tell he is hungry and insists that he sits and eat with him. They exchange names and words, the old man knowing that Odysseus does not tell him what he is doing in Alaska and why truthfully he gives him a sheep hide. This sheep hide is family heirloom of the old man he told Odysseus that it will keep a man alive in the coldest weather. Soon after Odysseus leaves not wanting to over stay his welcome, feeling different after the conversation with the old man as if he was not talking to normal man that it must of been something or someone not mortal he spoke to.

Now that Odysseus knows that he is in Nikolski on the Alaska Peninsula he decides to head to a U.S military base outside of Anchorage, but first he must stop by a nearby U.S military outpost close to Mountain Vsevidof so he can resupply his gear. He heads north east towards the outpost, but already dark he knows that he must travel quickly before sundown because he knows he can't survive the cold weather of the night. Out of nowhere the wind starts to blow in viciously from the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea with snow falling as blinding as the sun. For every five steps he takes he is pushed back six, the wind making his travel more brutal he is unsure if he can make it to the outpost or even survive. As a room with no light, hearing nothing, peering into darkness and sense of loneliness, even so did dark void of the night does Odysseus hear the echo of the wind, see the sight of midnight and the feel the sense of death. Not sure if he is any longer on track the death defying Odysseus is so cold that the tips of his fingers filled with numbness spread to the rest of his body. Suddenly remembering the sheep hide give to him by the old man he quickly put's it over him warming his body. Walking into blindness with the wind hitting his face with cold snow he hears the howls of foxes. Following the howls he find a pack of foxes with fur as white as the snow he is in. The animals signal him to follow them, as desperate as he is to get out of the blizzard he does. Finally after following the pack of foxes he makes it to the outpost. Exhausted and tired he bashes down the door of the barracks in outpost falls to the ground yet again and passes out.

In the morning he wakes up and is greeted by the faces of his fellow soldiers and is debriefed. They told him later that it was a miracle in that anyone could have survived that blizzard, that a god must have been watching him. Odysseus knowing that it was a god that saved him, the old man that gave him the hide. Odysseus is given an escort to the military base outside of Anchorage, is given provisions and replaced equipment. As the autumns leaves fall together, traveling where the wind takes them and dyeing together, even so did the pack of white foxes follow the humvee, running side by side together, and not leaving each other behind. Odysseus knew that the son Hermes, Pan the Sheppard god, saved his life for it was his flock of sheep and pack of foxes that showed him the way. Not worried for survival from the elements, he closes his eyes and rest for now.