The Whistling Belly-Button Trick

*Valentine* · 02-09-2019, 10:21 PM

Valentine had finally come up with a solution to his freezing cold problem. Fire. He'd heard of wolves who kept a little fire going in their den to keep themselves warm, but he'd never done it himself. Well, those days were behind him because what did he have smoldering in a weird little bundle made by a sketchy-looking trader? That's right, folks, Valentine Imperialis had fire. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

With that bundle he'd received a lesson in fire-keeping. Most of it had gone in one ear and out the other, but he'd retained enough to make himself foolhardy.

Presently he was running through the Range with a smoking bundle clutched in his jaws. He was headed for the tractor. Of course there wasn't room under it for both him and the fire, but Valentine had a plan. There was a big twisted piece of metal beside the tractor that he thought would make a good windbreak.

Reaching the tractor, Valentine quickly circled around it and laid the fire bundle on the rim of one of its big wheels. There wasn't much to the embers inside it, but they put off a steady stream of smoke as they chewed through the layers that held them in place and the plume could be see from quite some distance away. Valentine paid it little attention as he turned to eye the piece of metal. Now, how to make this into something useful...

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Intellect - building fire pit (15), teaching how to build a fire pit (5), giving history lesson (5), possible trade (5)

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