Baby Shark
01-05-2019, 10:45 AM
Following the river downstream brought Malleus to the coast. He'd been making this trip daily now for the better part of a week. Some time ago he'd gotten the idea to preserve meat for the times when prey was scarce. The problem with that was that he didn't know what he was doing. Once he'd participated on the sacking of pack that appeared to have used fire to preserve meats, but of course he hadn't been able to ask any of them their secrets. With preserving food in mind he'd begun building fires and experimenting with heat and meat. In his tests he used a variety of meats, including those from the sea. The tidal pools and shallows offered many options and so he'd experimented with crustaceans and fish alike. Today he was here to get more test subjects. After digging a shallow hole just outside the water's reach Malleus got to work. He waded into the shallows and was still, only moving to strike at fish as they came within reach. Soon not one but two fish flopped helplessly in the hole he'd dug. He'd just zeroed in on another fish when out of the corner of his eye Malleus spied a small shark moving towards him. So far all of his aquatic test subjects had been small. A smoked fillet of shark sounded nice. The small fish was forgotten as Malleus attention narrowed down to the nearing shark. |