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My Consequences Of Crafting

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My attention on crafting was it was, though, I almost failed to notice the trio of seven-foot tall dinosaurs skulking through the bush on the right side of the road... Almost. One was closing in from in front and to the right, behind to the right, and the last almost directly to the right A pincer with the one in the center to finish me off. Definitely not something a friendly lumbering herbivore would do. No siree. I glanced left and right, eyeing the six-foot fencing on either side with slack, rusted cables that gave little comfort. And looking up the road I could see two wide breaks in the fence where the poles were flat out gone. Trampled down most likely. The thing was as holed as swiss cheese. So it was useless, and then …show more content…

Almost as one, they fled out of my range with the swarm on their heels. I watched the area they’d left before something clicked. They’d communicated. I replayed the last minute in my head as I walked. The first had called out and… yes, the other had been in retreat as well, but at the call, the other two changed direction… and it had been the three of them working together, I was certain of it, like… a pack. So something like the dino’ equivalent of wolves then? Interesting. Well, interesting in that they might be telling each other they were retreating. A dinosaur whatever person would probably be dancing in glee. They never quite left, though. As I walked they ghosting in and out of range, lingering at the edge of my awareness until I rebuffed them. Interesting, in a different sense, but they weren't quite pushing it. Watching how they acted, I almost wanted to say they were testing how the swarm reacted when they got too close. But that level of pattern recognition… Communication was one thing, but that was a bit much. Nearing a junction in the road the sock on my right foot slipped down under my heel, but I ignored it. Instead, I stopped at the fork to look down both roads, standing on the rail where it crossed with another. Left and right, staying on the road I was on would lead wherever, but the left was a road that connected with another

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