Trial and Error Crafts

Chade considered his new bloody goat skin as he tried to decide what to do with it now.  “Fire?” Ricin said there might have been something to do with fire in the past.  What would fire be used for?  “Well, I think I need to get it in water maybe.  We should clean it off.  Maybe fire to dry it off after?  And I think it should be stretched out, I think at least.”  Chade shrugged with limited confidence.  “Even if it isn’t perfect, it's something for us to use for a time.” They could eventually learn how to do it right by trial and error, how they did everything else.

“So, I guess when you are done we leave here, go to water and then,” and then… what? “Ry, if it needs fire we’ll never get it right.  I don’t know how to make a fire.”  A shining light came to his eyes as he said that, “Hey, hey, there was that place with the really hot water though!  I wonder if that would work.  Does it need the flames or just the heat?” That was a bit of a hike for just a pelt but what else did the brothers really have to do with their time anyway?

That decision made Chade step away from the pelt, glancing at the supplies Ricin had led out, “Tying knots? Oooook, uh, what do you want me to do?”

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