What separates boys from men?
05-15-2018, 11:33 AM
Partway up a tree, Enrico surveyed the land around him.
While he wasn't precisely afraid of heights, the male had never been particularly comfortable with them either, so he wasn't much of a climber. These trees though with their strange slant had seemed to invite a visitor to walk up their trunks to a higher vantage point. So, after a long moment of studying them to be sure they would hold his weight, he'd done just that.
It was a warm morning, so now that he was above the ground and laying still, the prey animals that would normally be alerted by his scent were beginning to cautiously go about their normal business, unaware that there was a predator nearby. The warm scents of hares and rodents and even a grumpy old porcupine who was waddling along the forest floor rose to him. These were the moments that separated a good hunter - whether for prey, or wolves - from the mediocre. Observation. Knowing where to place yourself in order to remain undetected from those creatures you wanted to know more about. All creatures, whether prey or predator, were creatures of habit. The more you observed them, the more you got to know those habits. And once you knew them, the easier it would be to take them.
And Enrico was a very, very good hunter.
While he wasn't precisely afraid of heights, the male had never been particularly comfortable with them either, so he wasn't much of a climber. These trees though with their strange slant had seemed to invite a visitor to walk up their trunks to a higher vantage point. So, after a long moment of studying them to be sure they would hold his weight, he'd done just that.
It was a warm morning, so now that he was above the ground and laying still, the prey animals that would normally be alerted by his scent were beginning to cautiously go about their normal business, unaware that there was a predator nearby. The warm scents of hares and rodents and even a grumpy old porcupine who was waddling along the forest floor rose to him. These were the moments that separated a good hunter - whether for prey, or wolves - from the mediocre. Observation. Knowing where to place yourself in order to remain undetected from those creatures you wanted to know more about. All creatures, whether prey or predator, were creatures of habit. The more you observed them, the more you got to know those habits. And once you knew them, the easier it would be to take them.
And Enrico was a very, very good hunter.