"We could dry it," Faelis said. "It wouldn't take much time, and, though it won't be cured, people would buy it."
He took the hare downwind of their camp and pulled out a knife, but this was not one of his fighting daggers, it was a simple hunters knife.
"For rabbits and hares, the skin is very easy to get off, though if not a bit disturbing," Faelis said, and, holding the hare up in one hand, slit the skin around its throat, tail, and legs. "Here's the kind of weird part." He took the skin around the neck and slowly just peeled it off the animal. It came off in one big piece, though it was inside out. Faelis turned it right side out and laid it on the ground next to him. As he continued to prepare the hare, he showed Leyla how to do it, and when he was done he took the meat and pit it on a spit over the fire. He took the remains of the hare that couldn't be used and started for the edge of the clearing.
"I'm going to put these somewhere pretty far away from the camp," he said. "I don't want any predatory animals to smell them and then come near us, and I need to get some water. I won't be long, but you can just slowly turn the spit so the hare cooks evenly."
He walked into the woods and deposited the remains far away from their camp. He found a stream and, after washing the blood from his hands completely, he filled their water skins upstream of where he had washed his hands.
He made his way back to camp.
