Work smarter, not harder

Manea smiled at her son's enthusiasm to get right to work and they went together over to the trees she had pointed out. Malico immediately began to dig while asking how big they were going to make this hole. She joins him, clawing her way through the top crust and piling up the dirt off to the side. "It doesn't need to be very big, just big enough to hide our stakes in and wide enough to trip up any prey that come through here. The rope should do a pretty good job of catching their legs and making them fall, but if they manage to jump over the rope then this pit should make sure they fall down." She certainly had a preference for a more direct approach to hunting, but traps were a valuable tool when hunting larger prey alone. It was one of those things that she wanted to show her children the proper, safe way to do things rather than letting them follow her and Alastor's reckless example.

Once they had a couple of decent sized piles, She reached over for one of the pails and handed it to Malico. "Scoop up the loose dirt and dump it off in the bushes over there so they don't give away the fact that there's a hole here," she instructed him, letting him take the slightly easier task like she continued to dig out a trench-like hole that spanned the length of the gap between the trees and was a couple of feet wide. Since the ground was still cold and hard and a bit difficult to dig through she didn't want to waste a bunch of time making the hole very deep and luckily for their purposes they wouldn't need it to be. Once she was done with digging, she helped Malico with getting the last of the dirt out of the way and then went to fetch the pointed metal stakes. "We want these fairly evenly spaced along this hole, but not too close to the far edges. We only have three of them so we want them to be where our prey is most likely going to fall if they land in the hole." She gestured toward the hole and asked, "Where do you think we should put them? You decide and I'll put them in."

"Manea Mendacium"