"Into the woods, of course! With him SO strung-up, I knew I had to wear him down. A little bit of silent stalking more, and I found just what I needed - several fist-sized rocks. If you've got a strong arm and good aim, you can make quite a terrible cracking sound by hitting a tree. Sounds like a gunshot, even in a stuffy bog!
"As far as he knew, suddenly, someone was chasing him from the route he'd just come and he took off. I followed parallel to him, shadowing him from the trees - he had to use the path but I knew my stomping grounds enough to follow in the brush. This fool outed himself in that very moment to me - he wasn't even from Nawlins.
"And every time he turned a ways that might've led him towards a road? Why, suddenly there was a CRACK coming from that direction. And another, and another... this man ran himself deeper and deeper, even braving splashing through water to shake the scent. His only reprieve was when I couldn't be quiet, so I'd let him run ahead, think himself safe for a hair, before I started the paranoid cycle all over again."
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"As far as he knew, suddenly, someone was chasing him from the route he'd just come and he took off. I followed parallel to him, shadowing him from the trees - he had to use the path but I knew my stomping grounds enough to follow in the brush. This fool outed himself in that very moment to me - he wasn't even from Nawlins.
"And every time he turned a ways that might've led him towards a road? Why, suddenly there was a CRACK coming from that direction. And another, and another... this man ran himself deeper and deeper, even braving splashing through water to shake the scent. His only reprieve was when I couldn't be quiet, so I'd let him run ahead, think himself safe for a hair, before I started the paranoid cycle all over again."