“Huh? How are you going to catch it if you seal the exit?”
“You’ll find out soon enough, Yvette.”
I kept her guessing. Out of the three holes I found, I covered only two. That meant there were two more burrows left open.
While Yvette watched on with confusion, I chopped down a bamboo stalk with my Damascus knife, keeping the node on one end intact and the other end open. I then searched for some wood chips and dried grass. I punctured a hole on the node and slid a thinner bamboo stick through.
I fished out the flint from my pocket to burn the wood chip and dried grass inside the node before blowing into the thinner bamboo stalk inside the incision I made. With smoke entering the burrow, I could hear the bamboo rat squeaking and thudding around. It must be trying to get away from being
