Book Five, Chapter 92: Blue Moon Rising
~Andrew~
Phase Two: The Funnel
“Light the fuses!” Riley cried as he fired another shot uselessly at a wolf bounding toward us.
The wolves crowded the fields to the front and sides of the palisade walls. Some tried to climb the back wall with little success.
I aimed my pistol at a small black string sticking up over the side of the left wall of the palisade. Focus. Control. Fire. The bullet struck the black fuse against the stone of the wall, and a spark flew, igniting the fuse.
The fuse started to burn down, down, down into the ground outside the wall, and out across the outside of the wall itself. To my surprise, the wolves seemed to understand what was going on—or at least they thought they did—as they braced for an explosion.
Riley extolled the value of a fuse being lit On-Screen. He said everyone loves the shot of a fuse burning as it snakes along the ground. Great for tension, he said.
On the right side, Riley had shot another fuse.
The payoff was huge because the fuses were not connected to bombs.