Wilderness survival was a science as much as mechanics was. Surviving an enemy that was watching them from afar? More of an art.
He knew better than to put their navigation at the mercy of memory when they had miles and miles of forest to survey--trailblazing was the science part, and the High Garda had taught him well in that regard. When he was finished, he put the knife away again and resumed walking.
The art would mean getting creative when the time called for it. At his most optimistic, Jess envisioned finding a patch of cliffside with enough handholds to take him up the canyon wall and not even needing to use the blazes on the way back. (At his most realistic? That was another story.)
"Yeah. Sandwiched between Taurus and Cancer. Brightest star is Castor, second brightest is Pollux."
Doubting Raven would know what he was talking about if he brought it up, he left out saying Ptolemy's Almagest had been what had introduced him to the zodiac constellations. He supposed only someone looking up at the sky from the ground could appreciate the writings of someone else doing the same in another long-ago century.
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He knew better than to put their navigation at the mercy of memory when they had miles and miles of forest to survey--trailblazing was the science part, and the High Garda had taught him well in that regard. When he was finished, he put the knife away again and resumed walking.
The art would mean getting creative when the time called for it. At his most optimistic, Jess envisioned finding a patch of cliffside with enough handholds to take him up the canyon wall and not even needing to use the blazes on the way back. (At his most realistic? That was another story.)
"Yeah. Sandwiched between Taurus and Cancer. Brightest star is Castor, second brightest is Pollux."
Doubting Raven would know what he was talking about if he brought it up, he left out saying Ptolemy's Almagest had been what had introduced him to the zodiac constellations. He supposed only someone looking up at the sky from the ground could appreciate the writings of someone else doing the same in another long-ago century.