The Hunters Pray

Hunter

^Loras point of view^

Lora woke up from rays of sun hitting her face, sleep was uneasy this night, 'it's just stress' she thought. She opened the wooden door and went out to look around her camp. She noticed that there was no sleeping bag in sight, so she felt quite uneasy thinking about a stranger named Rin that she met last night.

Then she turned around and saw Rin walking up to her with something that looked like a wire in his hand.

"I woke up at dawn and went down to the village to find some stuff for traps," he said with a friendly look in his eyes.

"Oh okay, but I've never used wire to make traps," Lora said feeling a bit confused.

"I remember that I've told you that I will teach you how to do it," Rin said and he started to move more inside the forest.

"Are you coming?" He said and Lora immediately followed him.

They walked for around 30 minutes through the forest and then Rin motioned to stop.

"This will be good training grounds for you, we will not spook animals closer to your camp," Rin said pointing towards the ground.

"There is a small path here that seems to be quite busy, so we will have good chances to catch something here".

Lora looked around but couldn't see anything.

"I don't see it," she said trying her best to find that path that Rin was talking about. Rin crouched down and pointed towards bushes and the ground itself.

"Come a bit closer and look, these bushes have been brushed quite often, rabbits use tall bushes for hiding, and if you look closer you will see a small path going towards the field". Rin said.

Lora looked as hard as she could and she finally noticed a small path that was going towards the field.

"I see it!" She shouted, and at the same time, she felt quite silly since she just placed traps at random locations.

"Now comes the fun part," Rin said and Lora quickly noticed how his eyes blazed up from saying that.

"You seem to know a lot about this" Lora said.

"I think I was a hunter in the past" Rin said completely focused on the contraption that he was placing.

Lora was a bit confused about what Rin said, but she thought that he just meant life before the world collapsed.

"This snare is simple to set up, all you need is to make a simple supporting rack and place the scare in the middle of the path, once rabbit will enter it the snare will tighten, the more rabbit will struggle the harder it will construct him, ending up in dinner for you," Rin said pointing to the trap he made.

For Lora, it looked like just a couple of medium-sized sticks and a metal wire hooked up in the middle of it.

"Are you sure it's gonna work, it looks really simple for me, like something I could make myself"? Lora said while looking at the trap that Rin placed.

"Yes it's simple, but it's effective, and yes that's the goal that I was aiming for. It's the easiest trap way of traps that will get you meat for dinner." After saying that Rin put some branches around the trap concealing it.

"We should leave now, we can't stay here for too much or animals will not come here because our scents will stay and scare them," Rin said and went back into the forest towards the direction where the camp was.

Lora quickly followed Rin, trying to put everything that she learned this morning into her head. For her, this experience was something that she was really happy about. Eating meat more often would be an amazing thing, and she has someone to talk to, a thing that she was missing so much in past years.

Once they've arrived at the camp Lora saw that Rin was quite uneasy he sat by his gun inspecting it with his eyes, then he stood up picked up his gun and backpack, and started to walk away from the camp.

"Where are you going?" Lora asked,

"I can't stay here right now, I should be back tomorrow to check the traps", he said and then he just left.

'Was it something that I've done?' Lora though. And then she started doing her usual chores around the camp, with her mind completely lost in thoughts about this stranger that she met.

^Rins point of view^

The hour has passed since he left Loras camp, he was moving towards another forest that was around 3 hours away from where he started. Then he suddenly fell on the ground as he noticed another human walking in the distance.

"Well it's not the one I was tracking for this week, but a quick hunt will suffice," he said with a sinister smile and a dead focused look on the human.

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