Strategy games

Rudy had spent the morning setting up a game for little Elowen.  The game map would be the starlit plains this time but if Eli did well and enjoyed the game it could be somewhere harder the next round.  A tan pelt lay in the grass in front of Rudy and on the pelt was one of Mama’s feathers and a small tree branch shaped rather like a wishbone.  Rudy had made sure the bird would agree to the game ahead of time and warned it not to tell Elowen.  When she’d woken up that morning she would have found mama to not be with them.  

The motley wolf howled a call for Elown, a playful grin on his face, looking from the feather to the surrounding area of grass.  Looking around quickly wouldn’t be enough to win the game, Rudy had made sure of that.  Out there with the grass, there were always the oddities of rabbit mounds, mole holes, areas where the grass had been pulled up, and other random things.  Including a few things, Rudy had placed about.  A few other branches, some river rocks, a little knot of alpaca wool half hidden under a rock along with a few areas he had dug up and then put the dirt loosely back in place.
 
These things easily molded together to seem perfectly innocent and most of it hidden within the grass needing to be searched for.  The following clues could lead to where Mama was hiding and waiting for Elowen to find.  A game of strategy he hoped she would enjoy.

"Rudyard"