These openings grew in size, the segments diminished.
"I guess you can come an' get me any time," he mumbled.

"Anyway, I'm goin' to sleep." Once he awakened, and in an opening in the circle, directly in front of him, he saw the she-wolf gazing at him.
Again he awakened, a little later, though it seemed hours to him.

A mysterious change had taken place--so mysterious a change that he was shocked wider awake.

Something had happened.

He could not understand at first.