Shot Down
“The hunters had left a trail of broken twigs and bent plant stems most of the way to the top. What looked like maybe wheel tracks, too. I had spent the last stretch of our climb up paging through the Matterhorn guide.
I sat down on a rock and held out two handfuls of wild tubers to the Captain when he reached me.
“Thanks,” he said, quiet, glancing from side to side. “Starved.”
I took a lot of eating to feel full on foraged food. Sometimes more food than it was easy to find. But Kentucky seemed ...like anyplace else I’d been—a little bit of knowledge meant you wouldn’t starve.
For a while we’ll have to stick with plants, I thought. The Captain and I had hunted before. But with meat we would’ve ended up leaving traces of the kill or the prep or the meal behind—bones, blood, fur. That wasn’t even thinking about starting a fire, or the smoke that comes from it.
The Captain wiped his mouth, and we kept walking. Not long after the ground flattened out we saw a building. Built from logs, boxy—not a house.MoreLess
I sat down on a rock and held out two handfuls of wild tubers to the Captain when he reached me.
“Thanks,” he said, quiet, glancing from side to side. “Starved.”
I took a lot of eating to feel full on foraged food. Sometimes more food than it was easy to find. But Kentucky seemed ...like anyplace else I’d been—a little bit of knowledge meant you wouldn’t starve.
For a while we’ll have to stick with plants, I thought. The Captain and I had hunted before. But with meat we would’ve ended up leaving traces of the kill or the prep or the meal behind—bones, blood, fur. That wasn’t even thinking about starting a fire, or the smoke that comes from it.
The Captain wiped his mouth, and we kept walking. Not long after the ground flattened out we saw a building. Built from logs, boxy—not a house.MoreLess
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