Stories: Snow Cats
The arm poked the muzzle of the gun into the back of the deer's neck. "Bang."Summary
It's winter in the High Sierra, and amid the chill, subtle plans are heating up. We join two tiger theris arguing about the logistics of wilderness living in the midst of a light snowstorm.
Author
BaxilDragonRelease date
Nov. 21, 2003Word Count
875Author Comments
It's almost unfair to call this a "story"; it's a detached scene in the GroupTheRedeemers plot arc. But it's a solidly written introduction to Hessus and Shadow.Story Data
Major Characters
Dates of Story Events
- Late January, 1997
Locations
Significant Cameos and References
- The "golden boy" Shadow speaks of is CharacterMars. The other names mentioned are fellow GroupTheRedeemers members.
Trivia
- By Shadow's reference to "eight mages," this story takes place shortly before CharacterSratelethien was recruited.
- Those with little experience with mountain snow might assume that Shadow's magical melting of "the snow around his paws" left him standing on dry, solid ground. Not so: The snowpack in the High Sierra routinely reaches a minimum depth of 6-10 feet in winter. "The snow around his feet" refers to that top layer of snow (especially during a storm) being loose and prone to sinkthrough -- once he took a step and his paws compressed snow until it would hold his weight, there would have been a substantial layer that hadn't been so compressed obscuring his feet and legs. Melting that layer would leave a small depression in the snow, leaving him still standing on snowpack but exposing his paws again.
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