Identify the mood in the following passage from "The Most Dangerous
Game" Explain your reasoning. Answer in 1-2 sentences,
An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake, and sleep did
not visit Rainsford, although the silence of a dead world was on the jungle. Toward
morning, when a dingy gray was varnishing the sky, the cry of some startled bird
focused Rainsford's attention in that direction. Something was coming through the
bush, coming slowly, carefully coming by the same winding way Rainsford had
come. He flattened himself down on the limb, and through a screen of leaves
almost ds thick as tapestry, he watched. The thing that was approaching was a
man