Hunter's Woods Writing Prompts
An archive of all my written responses to prompts for my Hunter's Woods group, the Wayfarers.
(Words counted with wordcounter.net prior to posting for tracking purposes, so they can be totaled up in the AN at the end of chapters without having to edit the entries - May differ slightly from counts listed by TH.)
Author's Notes
How good is this individual at keeping track of time, are they always punctual or fashionably late? Do they frequently not remember to show up at all?
Prompt I 57 - Mitko
As mentioned previously, the Wayfarers don't really keep schedules with exact times and dates the way people do. Being a bunch of nomadic, feral cats in a world where they are very much not the most technologically advanced species, they mostly just have a loose idea of things like what time they're going to do things and what days those things are going to be happening, unless they're camped out near a human settlement with displays for those sorts of things - Something that's becoming less feasible in the long-term, as more and more obviously-strange cats find their way into the group (though Beatrix still insists that it won't cause her any problems in her search for her humans).
Having said that, Mitko is one of the better members of the group when it comes to timekeeping. He's not as intensely focused on it as Amara is, and frankly, he finds her devotion to the whole affair absurd, but he lived around humans long enough to get a decent enough grasp on things like how fast an hour or a day or a week is, vaguely when the sun rises and sets in relation to the seasons, and so on.
Now, whether he actually takes advantage of his reasonably functional understanding of time to actually stick to a schedule? That's a bit more debatable. Oh, sure, he could show up on time to something if you asked him to, but if he decides it's not worth his energy and attention and effort, he might not show up at all - Or, if he does actually arrive at the location you specified, he might show up a few hours after you asked him to be there. It really depends on his mood and what's being asked of him, and he will expect you to tell him why exactly you're expecting him to be at a certain place to do a certain thing at a certain time when you ask him in the first place, because really, he could be spending that time doing important things, like, you know, going hunting and making sure they all don't starve, because half of this band of misfits can barely hunt for themselves or are too busy harassing each other to do their jobs-
Uh, he gets a bit ranty about these sorts of things. Long story short, he could show up on time, and he even might show up, if he thinks it's worth his time... but let's be honest, with that attitude of his, it's probably best to just leave him be.
Author's Notes
Wordcount: 429 (150 minimum + 279 extra)
Rewards: 2 White Feathers (1 base 100 words + 1 extra 200 extra words x1)
Claimed: No