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by Meth » Tue Feb 10, 2015 5:34 pm
As Kuodachi would approach the corn field, he would catch on to an all too eerie atmosphere within it. Perhaps some kind of creature was lurking in the midst of the green-yellow leaves, or, perhaps, it was just a sudden onset of paranoia. Such paranoid feelings would be confirmed, however, when rustling could be heard deeper within the corn field. The stalks themselves were about 12 feet tall--shorter than most others in production within the Fire Country, but that wasn't the point. The towering height gave a severe disadvantage to Kuodachi as each stalk seemed to be a wall in between the next, blockading his line of sight completely. He would need some sort of a defined direction in order to head to the X instead of getting eternally lost.
Poor Saburo had the most difficult path of the three. The grain wasn't just any grain, it was a secret strain of grain that the farmer had been preparing selectively. It didn't appear that way, for the X was in plain visible sight in the distance, but it was. Had it been rice or something else, the trip would have been easy, but if Saburo were to step onto or into the puddles of mud that they grew in, he would find that his feet would sink several feet inward into the brown mud that held the grain crops. The truth of the matter was, the grain secreted a sticky compound that fused with the dirt around it to make a quicksand-esque, cement-like dirt, only to turn into a stronger version when the regular irrigation system functions came around.
Rauji's path, on the other hand, was much simpler than the other two, and in moments he would arrive to the front gate of the relatively small territory that the farmer owned. Indeed, there was an X at the gate, something that the three quite possibly could have overseen on their way to the farmhouse. However, the only difficulty that arose was that there wasn't any tools along the way; after all, what kind of farmer doesn't look after their tools?
