Before killing the dyavo, Kossara had clear shots at a soaring orlik and a bull yelen poised on a crag but let them live. Indeed, why go out and kill anything? Manse Everard had hunted in the Pleistocene but Wanda Tamberly taught him to take a camera instead of a gun.
Kossara and Trohdwyr make camp:
"...high in the bowl of the Kazan, where that huge crater bit an arc from the Vysochina."
-Poul Anderson, A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows IN Anderson, Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight Of Terra (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 339-606 AT II, p. 365.
Trohdwyr was born in a fishing village, presumably on the Obala.
Dense purple mahovina, springy to walk on and spicy to smell, is studded by white and gold wildflowers. To the east, the ringwall slopes down to trees and yellow evening light falls on misty forest.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I'm not a hunter, but I see nothing wrong in human beings hunting animals. As a race we are omnivores, meaning meat is as edible to us as plant based foods. And richer and more concentrated as well, which would be desirable for strenuous physical activities of all kinds.
Sean
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