Time to begin

Rudy followed Fern paying attention to the scents in the air himself but remaining quiet to let Fern have the satisfaction of finding her deer on her own.  Eventually, they found the deer and Kotori gave her a small nod of encouragement.

Rudy nodded speaking softly, “Remember, today is less work than later.” Rudy glanced about at the different lengths of grass, “we can go to the left, we want to get around behind it to chase it back towards the snare.  You stay on the left side of it, I stay on the right.  We can herd it to the snare.”  Rudy would rather just take the deer down the old-fashioned way but they’d wait to heal up a bit better for that.

“You get to start this, I’m following your lead.”  Rudy had no idea if they’d succeed or not but that wasn’t important.  This was letting Fern get a taste for things.  A bit of experience, a bit of healing and they’d improve.  “Remember you are injured.  Don’t tear the stitches.  If we can’t keep up it's ok, this is practice.”

Rudyard Carpathius