The Thinking Rocks by Butkus C. Allan

Author:Butkus, C. Allan [Butkus, C. Allan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

A False False Trail

Cano then outlined his plan to Dola. What they were going to do was confuse Lomasi. They were going to convince him that one of them had fallen over the cliff and that the remaining person had headed back toward the river. Lomasi would probably see through the trick of dropping the log over the cliff and try to find where they really were headed. Cano would leave tracks heading back toward the river, and some broken branches that Lomasi would find. He would want to believe it, and hopefully follow it. In the meantime, they would carefully retrace their steps to their original path and then travel up the trail into the forest as they had been doing. Then the key part of the plan was for Dola to travel back through the brush and pick up the trail to the river farther down than they had traveled while they set the false trail. Cano would continue up into the hills and lose Lomasi and Morf in the forest after they had realized the false trail led nowhere.

Dola looked confused, "Let me see if I understand what we are going to do. We are going to pretend that one of us fell over the cliff and was killed. Then we are going to make a false trail for Lomasi to follow toward the river. Then we are going to come back here without leaving a trail, and we will travel up this trail until we separate for real this time, and I cut through the brush and pickup the trail to the river beyond where Lomasi would have tracked us. Then I should actually get on the trail that we pretended we were going to take and go where they thought we were going at first. Is that right?"

Cano said, "I know that it sounds strange, but I think that it will work. We are going to let him think that he knows what we are doing. After he follows the false trail he will not find any signs that we went that way. He will know that he has been tricked. He will come back up the trail looking for us this way. He will see the marks at the cliffs edge and may believe that one of us has died. It doesn't matter if he really believes it or not. He will want to believe one of us is dead. If one of us is dead, then he only has one more to catch. He has to keep looking like he is in charge. In the meantime you will be safe sneaking back toward the river. He won't go back that way because it was a false trail. Does it make sense to you?"

Dola nodded, "Maybe I've been around you and Gennos enough to understand what we are trying to do. We will make a false trail, and then convince him that it is a false trail. When he gives up on it, we will use it to escape.

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