If they scored a big kill today, they could rest easy for a couple days and wouldn't have to worry about their Clan's stomaches going empty. If they didn't find meat today, things would be different....
Hunting Party
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Hunting Party
The Cranhollow hunters moved silently through the field's edge, staying in the treeline out of sight. The five hunters with Hern were all equipped with bows and arrows, and each had their hunting knives by their side. It was mid-morning and they had not seen any sign of their prey.
If they scored a big kill today, they could rest easy for a couple days and wouldn't have to worry about their Clan's stomaches going empty. If they didn't find meat today, things would be different....
If they scored a big kill today, they could rest easy for a couple days and wouldn't have to worry about their Clan's stomaches going empty. If they didn't find meat today, things would be different....
"If at first you DO succeed, try not to look surprised!"
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....., much different. The hunters would be forced to travel further from their Clan in search of food.
Hern didn't have anything waiting for him back in the village. His mother had died in childbirth, and his father had went on the Last Hunt a few seasons back. With no siblings, his Clan is his family.
Just then, the hunters saw movement in the field...
Hern didn't have anything waiting for him back in the village. His mother had died in childbirth, and his father had went on the Last Hunt a few seasons back. With no siblings, his Clan is his family.
Just then, the hunters saw movement in the field...
"If at first you DO succeed, try not to look surprised!"
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....and each of the men paused in their steps. Crouching low they gazed out from behind cover, some behind trees, others low brush. Down in the field some short distance away were four men on horseback. These men were nothing like the Cranhollow hunters, each one...
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." - Gandalf
J.R.R. Tolkien, Council of Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien, Council of Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
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... wore metal across their chest and were heavily equiped. They didn't seem to notice the hunting party in their midst, not being used to the wild and what is could bring. The foreign men were joking around not paying much attention to their surroundings when suddenley the leader looked up...
"If at first you DO succeed, try not to look surprised!"
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...just in time to see what carried death to him. The beast emerging from the low scrub and catching the man across the throat with a massive claw. Then the creature roared, the sound sending shivers of terror through man and beast alike. The horses of the iron men rearing and dropping several of the riders unceremoniously to the ground, before turning to bolt across the field. The bears great teeth filtering hot breath in the face of the leader as blood drains away from his body. Then the hunting party spies something hidden within the bushes. The curious cubs moving towards them, even as their mother dispatches a second of the horsemen with a ferocius bite that removes the mans face. A third man encased in a woven coat of steel draws a slim sword from a scabbard at his hip and...
...And the stone of the earth and the wind in the sky bowed before the wisdom of the Ancient One...