This is a short chapter and not the best I'm afraid. Sorry about that. Well, I guess I should let you all decide for yourselves if you like it or not. ~~~~~~~
And none could deny, Will's idea was a brilliant one, and really effective for what they needed to do right now. To say it was clever hardly did this idea justice.
" Will, that was an amazing idea!" insisted Aaron, jogging up along side Tug. Will grinned, climbing down from Tug and jogging along side while Aaron climbed onto Tug's back. He was rather proud of the idea as well, and glad to hear that it was working out so well.
" Gilan should be on his way."
" Right." Will panted from the jogging, and Aaron waved, then ushered Tug to speed up. Truly it was a rather clever idea, to say the least.
" What if we separate into two groups?" Will suggested, a few days ago. "They're only looking for a pair of riders, right?" He glanced over at his master. Slowly, Halt gave a vague nod.
That was very true. Given two separate trails, Urosia and his men would have to decide which to follow, or at least split into two groups themselves to be sure they found the right person that they had been looking for.
" Yes, but there's more to your plan?" Aaron asked, leaning forwards, curious. He'd heard the way that Will had said it, as though he had more to tell then just what he'd said. Will smirked slightly, and nodded to them.
" What if we switch around?" He asked them, leaving them all confused to what he meant by these words. " Huh?" Aaron voiced, bland and not even hiding the fact that he was confused. " I mean, confuse them while we go along. " Will began to elaborate for them all.
" We can have one of us jog, leaving a set of foot prints behind, then have single horse prints separate from the others, groups of three horse prints, all intertwining together. It'll confuse them." he said. They had to think over this tangling prints.
Starting in groups of two, Gilan and Will in one and Halt and Aaron in the other, the two Ranger's had the younger boys and their horses follow their own first off. First, Gilan allowed Blaze to go on, leaping off of his saddle and running for awhile.
Then Aaron doubled back, and after a bit of time, began to run too. Then Gilan took off, riding Rurin the stallion (very uncofortable, mind you) and switched places with Will. Then so on from there.
This went on for several days without a problem. Of coarse, they knew it my take several days for the army to pick up their trail again. So, they kept at it.
All the while, Halt watched Aaron like a hawk. To say that he distrusted Aaron didn't explain the half of it in all honesty. Don't mis-understand, Halt did like Aaron as a person. The boy was funny, and he felt he could relate to the boy very well.
However, trusting Aaron was another story. What made this worse for Halt was the fact that he had no reason NOT to trust Aaron. Aaron performed tasks and did chores in a timely, effective manner, but something about him just made Halt feel as though he couldn't trust the boy.
Gilan had told him at an earlier date that Aaron had told him almost all lies along the way. Halt knew that at that point. Even having this in mind, however,something about Aaron seemed very unnerving, even somewhat suspicious to the old Ranger. Something wasn't right, and Halt didn't know what. That bothered him to his wits end.
Still, the days rolled by, and just to be sure everything was going alright, on one night in particular, Halt doubled back to see what this cavalry group was up to. He was very careful as he went, and he found that Will's idea seemed to be working wonders.
During the time he doubled back, Halt spotted a set of two people searching around, following the trial that had been left by Halt and his companions. They had given up trying to catch up for the night and were heading back to join the rest of their companions in the cavalry.
Smiling, Halt returned to Gilan, Will, and Aaron, with good news to give.
But then, good tidings never do last long, do they?~~~~
Well, I told you all it was pretty short and it was. This is mostly to fill the space leading up to the next part of the story, which is a whole lot of action stuff thrown together. You'll have to wait for that a bit though. Til next time and as always, Read and Review accordingly!