Rabbit Capture (Runes)

Rabbits. As usual, they made the perfect test dummies and subjects for this line of work. He was capturing them and holding them. But that was besides the main reason. No one went around capturing rabbits for no reason. There was always an ulterior motives. The only difference between himself and others was whether or not they exposed and told of their motives, or if they kept these motives hidden and in the dark.

But in this case, he wanted to test runes on those rabbits.  He needed to grab them and test his runes on them. He couldn’t just test it on himself. Of course not. That's foolish. Many of the runes on skin and on living creatures was riddled and run about with horror stories of terrible occurrences and mutations that could and commonly do occur. Best to avoid those while he could. And he would attempt to do so. Gathering the animals that he needed. Stumbling like a fool even in the dark, trying to grasp the snowy furballs to use.

The only thing he had to catch them was a few cages of wire he had bought in Nostvale. He was beginning to feel more comfortable in the city and visiting it, and since he was practicing another art, he didn’t see a conflict with his ideals of making everything himself that he used. It was a more modest means to an end, not the end in and of itself. Besides, his forging tools as of now were made in Nostvale as well. But that wouldn’t remain the same, he would forge himself better ones now that he was more familiar with what he was doing, but that was more for the future. For now he had to focus on the rabbits.

He had already pioneered his own way of going about these reproducing things. He would very slowly go to them, usually using the bushes and the foliage in the periphery of the clearings that they usual idled in as cover. Then before hopping, he would light an ember on the opposite side of them. More often than not, the things would then in fright dash away from the fire, and by the time he revealed himself, they were already moving straight at him. They might be good on turning on a dime, but it was most certainly a disadvantage over simply zipping in one direction without redirecting the momentum.

Once he had the rabbit, he would place it in the cage. Fodder for his little experiments.