Ed knew there was no way to get that mount off the wall. He was the one who’d driven in the damn screws. And with no real purchase for his back, butt or feet he couldn’t have pulled them out if the job had been shoddy and the wood rotten. However, there was still that slight springiness he’d noticed in his initial struggles.
Deer antlers are made of bone, true extrusions of the skull. That’s why they need velvet while developing. And though bone is of necessity strong and rigid, it also possesses that limited but absolutely necessary flexibility. This was a weakness that could be exploited.
The key word was ‘limited’. Exceed those limits and bones could break. Just ask Sprat, still wriggling her way toward where Julie was now fighting to roll atop Sawyer, who while still a bit weakened
