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 Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:27 pm
"Okay...."
Lin began to help looking, after all one would suppose the only way to learn was to do it. So that was what she was going to try and do. Though as she looked she couldn't help but wonder what it would all look like if she was small again.
She brushed away some leaves that had the unfortunate to fall before it's time.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:45 pm
"If you see other tracks, and you would like to know what made them," Aragost smiled at Lin from the depths of his cowl, "show me, and I can tell you."
"I found one!" Adan proclaimed from where he was kneeling at the edge of the spring. He pointed at the very soft mud right beside him. "Here!"
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:48 pm
Lin nodded as she hurried over to Adan the peer over his shoulder to see. After all he did not state if it was a deer track or another type of track. She thought, the animal was probably taking a drink since it was found at the edge.
"Is... it the mommy?"
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:52 pm
Adan grinned. "Yup! Probably won't find daddy tracks around here, the buck doesn't stay with the doe or the fawn very much."
"And yet," Aragost replied, "the buck also needs water, so it is entirely possible that there will be tracks here."
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:58 pm
Lin looked thoughtful and wondered what else would be drinking at the spring. She walked around the edge of the spring curiously careful of where she stepped. After all she didn't want to step on something she could find and ruin it.
"What are those?" she asked pointing to a set of tracks that were small but obviously not deer.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:02 pm
Aragost followed Lin and peered over her shoulder at the tracks she was indicating.
"Adanedhel?" he called softly, looking over at the boy.
Adan grinned and skittered over to look at the track, as he knew he would be expected to.
"I know that one!" he said proudly. "That's a raccoon track!"
Aragost put one hand on the boy's head. "Very good," he smiled.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:08 pm
She had never seen a raccoon before, but she was sure she could find a picture of it back home somewhere.
"Oh... it's very small," she murmured thoughtfully.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:16 pm
Aragost chuckled softly. "Their tracks are small," he agreed, "but they are quite large. Twice the size you used to be, Lin."
He knew that it was a common misconception, most people believed that raccoons were small; but they could grow up to the size of a dog, if they lived long enough.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:21 pm
"What are raccoons like?" Lin asked.
If they grew up to be that big, she knew they could be dangerous, but since she had never seen a raccoon she didn't know whether it would be dangerous or not.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:30 pm
"Raccoons are, for the most part, shy creatures," Aragost replied thoughtfully, watching Adan as the boy scouted around for more tracks, "and they are scavengers. They do eat some meat, but they do not kill. They steal. However ... if they are frightened ... startled ... or feel danger ... they can be very dangerous."
He paused.
"But they are very clean creatures," he went on, "very clean. They clean all of their food ... wash it, really ... no matter what it is ... plant, meat ... they take it to water and wash it before they eat it. Their forepaws are very similar to our hands, but of course smaller, and animalian."
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:34 pm
"Oh...." Lin mused.
Now she would like to see one, perhaps at a distance so she wouldn't scare one.
"That's neat, I haven't heard of that before."
To be fair there was a lot she hadn't heard of before.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:37 pm
"You gotta be careful with 'coons," Adan spoke up from where he was, near the treeline. "They bite. It hurts."
Aragost nodded grimly. The boy knew from experience how bad a raccoon bite was ... but at least it hadn't been a bite from a moor cat. That was poison.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:43 pm
Maybe she didn't want to see one after all, Lin thought absently as she went off to find more tracks. After all, it wasn't worth a bit, though she might to get to see one someday by accident.
She searched around for something of interest, she brushed away a bit of debris to find some other odd looking... print. At least to her it was odd.
"There is something here, but I don't know that is..."
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:47 pm
Aragost looked over to see what it was, and when he saw it, he blinked and looked again. Then he moved closer for a better look.
"That," he murmured, an anxious tone in his voice, "is our sign that we should not be here ... not at this time of year anymore ..."
He motioned Lin to follow him, then called, "Adanedhel! We have to go somewhere else, there are dragons about."
Adan was disappointed.
"Dragons? For real?" he asked, wishing they could stay there. "But I want to see one!"
"But not from the inside, I presume," he replied firmly. "Come ... we will continue our lesson from further down, away from the dragon's territory."
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:52 pm
Lin followed taking one last glance at that track, so that was what a dragon track looked like. She wondered if the pet dragons back home made tracks like that.
"Do they come to certain places at certain times of the year?" she asked Aragost.
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