Bab 76: Surprise!

Sobek thought he had become familiar with that strange world by now, but one day he discovered that it could still hold great surprises for him.

He had spent a whole week hunting along the lake shore and had now more than half of it explored. Unfortunately, however, he had managed to get very few preys.

The problem was that he was interested in carnivores, which were much harder to find than herbivores. Unlike them, which almost always moved in packs and therefore were easy to spot even from a distance, the predators never moved in groups of more than three individuals, and when they reached the lake they tended to leave early. This was because the lakeshore was a bad place for hunting: unlike the forest that gave them cover, the lake and its surroundings were uncovered, preventing it from ambushing and thus capturing preys.