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Haldan and Scout
Somewhere in the vicinity of the Blue Mountains
@Rillewen
Haldan and Scout
Somewhere in the vicinity of the Blue Mountains
@Rillewen
The potentially dire situation both with the weather and with the children running away from some unknown group of people was completely lost on Scout. The wolfhound knew he was supposed to watch over Fern but mostly he was excited to go outside with the girl and also excited for food later. As soon as they stepped outside the dog practically pounced into the snow. Fern exclaimed eagerly at the sight of the snow and Scout’s actions seemed to mimic the sentiment.
The arc of the snowball and Fern’s command immediately sprung the wolfhound into action. Despite his best efforts, however, he was unable to catch the snowball before it hit the snow. Nevertheless, Scout dived into the snow as if he would be able to recover the snowball from the pile of snow, fruitless though that effort would certainly be. Scout only dug around for a few moments before himself realizing he wouldn’t be able to find the snowball. He looked up and back towards Fern, snow covering his muzzle like a beard.
In the ranger hut, Haldan and Thorn worked diligently. It was Thorn who eventually broke the silence. Haldan wondered if perhaps he had come to realize that the ranger’s food store would now have to feed more mouths.
“I’m sure that would have been difficult. Usually people don’t leave their food lying around in convenient places for runaways to steal.” He said, truthfully. Haldan expected by this point that the children had clearly run from an unfortunate situation which likely meant that other people may have tried or considered running. When holding onto, more or less, captives, it generally meant that important supplies for survival were likely kept under watchful eye to prevent runaways from thinking it would be easy to steal important supplies.
“And I imagine you likely left in some haste and when the opportunity arose.” He added, assuming further explanation. He did not want to directly ask questions, but perhaps if he showed that he understood their predicament and the decisions they had made then they would be more likely to open up to him.