They didn’t run away, they didn’t hide in the forest, as predators usually do when they see a train. On the contrary – the wolves seemed to deliberately block the way. Their amber eyes glowed in the headlights, and they howled, one after another, so loud and long that the driver was frightened.

Instinctively, he hit the brakes. The wheels screeched, the train rolled a few more meters on inertia, and one of the wolves barely avoided the wheels. Yet even then, the animals did not back down. They stood on the tracks, preventing the steel machine from moving forward.