Lady Hollykahn

Chapter 1: The Hunt

Running full speed through the Forest of The Fox's looking for dinner. Hollykahn Harpsorcerer the Hunter spots a Deer, looking at her pet wolf, Little Bear, Standing about 12 hands high. Then back at the Deer, they come to an immediate stop trying not to make a sound.

"Shhh Little Bear", said Lady Hollykahn, quietly we don't want to spook it.

Little bear kneels down on his stomach, quiet as a mouse. Lady Hollykahn pulls her bow from off her shoulder slowly not making a sound, unsheathes an arrow and knocks it. Draws back the bow with the Deer in sight, about 500 yards out, Lady Hollykahn lets go of the bow string with next to no effort at all, she lets go of the string, the arrow flies through the air with precision. The arrow hits the Deer right in the side connecting with its heart and the Deer falls down.

Lady Hollykahn takes off running towards the Deer. Little Bear following behind. Lady Hollykahn kneels beside the Deer and says a little prayer for the gift of life. Sheading a tear over a life she has sacrificed to sustain her own. Lady Hollykahn prays.

After praying, Lady Hollykahn yanks the arrow from the Deer, pulls a rope from behind her back and ties the Deer hind legs together and tosses it over a tree limb where the Deer fell. Little Bear said Lady Hollykahn, Grab and pull the rope. Little Bear grabbed the rope and started backing away slowly.

The Deer started climbing up the limb by the rope as Little Bear backed up, Lady Hollykahn followed Little Bear and tied it off on the follow tree. Walking over to the Deer she unsheathes her dressing knife and slits the Deer throat so it will bleed out. After a few minutes and a puddle of blood later she starts dressing the Deer.

With Precision she skins it like no one's business, Natural talent of a Hunter. Little Bear was having lunch of heart, liver and lungs while Lady Hollykahn finished dressing the Deer. Skin is laying to the side; Antlers are removed for tools, handles or even trading for wares.

Lady Hollykahn gathers some stones and wood for a small fire, while the Deer is strung up, she wonders off to gather some stones for a fire pit, finding some she takes them back to the site and lays them in a circle so the fire won't spread along the grass and catch the trees on fire.

Back out looking for wood she tells Little Bear not to touch the Deer. After a few minutes of being gone, Lady Hollykahn comes back with an arm full of twigs and limbs for a fire. Some in shape of a Y so she can fork them in the ground on the outside of the pit for roasting some Deer steaks.

Laying some leaves in the pit along with a teepee of twigs and sticks, she pulls out her flint and tender and gets a fire going. Before you know it the fire is blazing, she adds a few bigger sticks. While it's burning she searches for a few more logs to keep the fire going for the night.

Upon her return she tosses the logs down by the pit along with a long limb for roasting. She takes her dressing knife and starts peeling away the bark of the limb. Upon completing the limb she slices off a few good hunks of meat from the Deer and pokes the limb through it and drapes it over the Y for roasting over the flame. Turning every little bit so it will not burn.

Yet again, she takes off to hunt for longer limbs to build a quick drying rack for some Deer jerky. Looking all around she manages to find 6 good length limbs to put together a drying rack. She heads back to the camp site as its starting to get dark, while there is still light she starts assembling the Drying rack. Taking the green bark from the limb earlier, she uses it as string and ties the rack together.

The rack completed now, she starts dressing out strips of meat to dry by the fire. As she finishes dressing the Deer and applying the meat to the rack for drying, she grabs the Deer skin and stretches it across the ground close to the fire, staking the corners to the ground while stretching. She has some salt in her pouch; she grabs a hand full out and tosses it across the skin to dry it out some for transporting.