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Tweak says, "I LOVE THE QAFANDOM."

Jimmy Proudstar (little_jim) wrote in devolve,
@ 2011-01-29 20:32:00

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alisa_tager, jimmy_proudstar

Who: Alisa and Jimmy
What: Jimmy is teaching Alisa to track
Where: Far side of the lake
When: Early afternoon
Rating: PG
Status: Incomplete

Jimmy concealed himself amongst the trees behind the lake. While hiding himself from her hadn't originally been part of the lesson, her accusation of him being sneaky had just given him the idea. He hadn't covered his tracks completely and she knew he was in the area.

He just doubted Alisa would expect him to be up a tree.

His experience with climbing trees was fairly a new one. There hadn't been many back home. But after five years in the east, he had figured it out. And could usually find an older, larger one that would support his weight.

So that was where he was waiting for Alisa, on the edge of the line of trees, near where he had Freakshow lay down the tracks for him the day before.

This was going to be fun.

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little_jim
2011-02-07 01:19 am UTC (link)

Jimmy was glad she was comfortable with him. That always took time, especially for people who'd lived out in the horrible world they lived in and hadn't known him for years.

What was silly about it? He needed to show her comparison prints and it was easier to do so with fresh prints and theirs would be varied enough. "Good," he agreed. "Because I am heavier, I will pack down much more snow. Because I have bigger feet, I will leave bigger tracks. But, because I am stronger, my feet drag much less, because I don't have to work as hard as to walk through the snow. So my prints as less misshapen. Also, stride can teach you to approximate how tall a person. Because taller people generally have longer legs. If one foot appears to have more drag than the other, the person could be injured or have a limp."

He smiled, tucking some of his hair back that had fallen over his face. "The bark is important," he agreed. "Things that fall off people's feet or things in the tracks can tell you things too. If the material is deeply embedded, like your bark, it was probably on their shoes. But the pieces that fell from your clothes as you moved are not. This also helps in figuring out how fresh the tracks are. The more litter like the world around the tracks that you find in them, the older the tracks are. Especially if animals have crossed the area as well. Wild animals are disturbed by people and don't go near their tracks until they want to check if it is safe."

"Snow is one of the easiest things to track through, so long as it doesn't snow again soon after. Even then, the snow is usually disturbed enough to know something's walked there recently just from the unevenness. Of course, too much snow and it doesn't matter." He smiled at her. "Make sense?"

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