=====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.

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==Author==
BaxilDragon

==Release date==
Nov. 21, 2003

==Word Count==
875

==Author 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.
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==Major Characters==
~- CharacterHessus
~- CharacterShadow

==Dates of Story Events==
~- Late January, 1997
~~- **Era:** EraSchismAndStalemate

==Locations==
~- LocationRedeemersBase

==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.

===Read it at===

http://www.tomorrowlands.org/nov2003b.html#11212003

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