Trial and Error Crafts

“Sure,” Chade replies with half attention in regards to the horns.  Finally, he had a cut from the backside to the neck on the animal, some areas would already be torn from their not being neat prior.  Sadly Chade hadn’t planned this until after they’d started eating.  Chade looked pleased with himself until he recalled there was plenty of more work to do.  Spitting out the rock for a moment he asked, “So, what ya using them for?”

Chade picked back up his sharp chipped rock and went to make sideways cuts.  If he started cuts on both sides could he just peel it up after that?  If he could that would mean less cutting work!  Circling the corpse he found the best spot to slash at the animal's hide to free it from the rest of the corpse.  Chade had taken those pelts for granted back then.  He had never considered there was work in making it.  Another thought came to his mind and the rock was spit back out.  “I don’t know if there’s anything else to do after we tear it off.  Think ya just toss it in water for a bit to wash off then it dries and is just like the ones we had?”

That said he went to work cutting.  Partway through he’d test biting into a corner and pulling, feeling a bit more give.  This might work!  How much of this could he keep and were there any flaws to this idea he hadn’t thought up?  Was sleeping on the skin of a previously sick animal ok?  The last notion was cast aside.  They had already eaten its meat so if they were going to get sick that should have done it.

Shortly after Ricin finished gathering an oddity of stuff Chade had finished cutting the rest of the skin and was dragging a nice patch of goatskin off of the corpse.  “It’s not very big but maybe we can make it bigger.”  The skin could definitely stretch so maybe they could make it stretch out long enough to lay on together?  If they stretched it would it stay stretched or would they have to make it stay stretched for a while?  Glancing from the bloody skin towards Ricin curious of how his project was going.


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