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Originally Posted by CallMeCrimson
|-| WispPaw |-| <Century Gothic> |-|
|-| A short haired tom with color point, grey markings - 7 moons - tom, he/him - gay - Purrks:N/A|-|---------------------------------------
Though this was new, and he was a bit nervous, he nodded. he did as WolfHive said, and got onto another branch, going to where it juuuust dipped under his weight. he knew if he was a bit nervous, he shouldn't look down. that's just common sense. he took a breath, and leapt onto the other tree. he gripped it with his claws, he had a rush of adrenaline, like on a roller coaster. he followed where WolfHive went. |
"Good job!" Wolfhive praised when Wisppaw successfully made the jump.
"Practice this when you can, being able to navigate through the trees is invaluable."
Wolfhive would repeat this process, crossing onto the branch of another nearby tree.
"The purpose of doing this today is I want you to track prey from above, and then leap down onto it to pin it. We're high enough where the branches rustling shouldn't alert anything, but not so high that jumping down will hurt you."
All of this - of course, was a spur of the moment experiment on Wolfhive's end. He'd never tried this before, but...
He tasted the air on the last branch he stopped on, and catching wind of a chipmunk he went on the hunt. He used the height of the tree to boost his ability to observe their surroundings, and once he caught sight of the critter he leapt from branch to branch to close the distance. Then, when he seemed close enough to the teee to leap---
He dropped down onto the chipmunk, pinning it beneath him and killing it with a clean bite to the neck. Wolfhive's heart was pounding - it worked! Maybe he was just lucky, either way he caught something. He looked up toward Wisppaw, signaling him to make an attempt.