by AustralianChaos » July 13th, 2010, 2:21 am
The rain soon woke Tanga up, causing him to shiver in discomfort. So much for sunbathing, he thought irritably as he looked around the now gloomy clearing. As his eyes adjusted to the darkness he noticed that Snowy was not there, although Dixon was sleeping peacefully through the rain.
Deciding that he was not going to sleep in this blasted rain, Tanga got to his feet, trying to determine where Snowy had gone. But the rain was fast erasing all paw-prints, and Tanga only managed to ascertain where Snowy had slept, the direction he had walked off in, and that he had woken up recently. but before Tanga could follow the paw prints too far, the rain wiped them away, along the traces of Snowy's scent that had been left behind.
Tanga did however, keep going, and was rewarded by finding a larger disturbance in the muddy ground, one that the rain could not entirely wash away. Tanga could determine no scents in the rain and mud, but he could see enough to determine the beginnings of a theory. There had been a struggle here...and Snowy was involved.
Tanga eyes widened as he ran back to the clearing, giving Dixon a hard shove. "Dixon! Dixon, wake up! Snowy's gone!"