News first: I got back my Foreword Clarion Review for Tourist Trap, snippets from which I blogged here last year. 5 Stars, and they don’t give them often!
Continuing on from last week on War’s End, Coralie is stranded on a strange planet, and has sent her dog, Bounce, to find the others from the ship. Bounce is a pocket herder, a small herding breed capable of limited telepathy. The breed was inspired by my first Sheltie, Derry, who was also my first tracking dog. Bounce is a clear sable, not darkly shaded like Derry, and has no white markings. If you want more background, click on the Index tab at the top of the page, and then on Six Sentence Sunday.
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Now she was able to follow Bounce mentally, and to her pleased surprise she had no problem keeping track of the little dog’s location as Bounce searched. A familiar scent reached Bounce’s nose, but not the one she was hunting for. Coralie noted the dog’s position, but sent her on. There. Bounce stopped dead and turned into the faint whisper of wind, zigzagging up the cone of scent as she searched for its source.
Coralie couldn’t see much through Bounce’s eyes–everything was in shades of gray to the dog, and nothing seemed sharply in focus.
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So, is your character back at the ship watching through Bounce’s eyes kinda like a camera of some sorts? I bet she wasn’t counting on the gray images. Neat!
No, she’s still stranded in the jungle. It’s so dense she can’t see the others or figure where their voices are originating.
Love the details about differences in perceptions. Humans are such visual creatures that I’d imagine seeing in b/w would pose problems but the sudden rush of scent information would be a blast. Nicely thought out.
At least Bounce is a mammal with more or less the same suite of senses Coralie is accustomed to, even if which ones are most important to her differ.
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Love the contrast between Bounce’s senses and Coralie’s and how she perceives the world through the dog’s. Nice bit of work here, lady! Good six. 🙂 And congrats on the review!
Well, dogs (and wolves) are very smell-oriented.
I love how smoothly you wrote this SueAnn…I can picture it so easily.
Thanks. I try to figure out what the character would be aware of.
Interesting- a telepathic dog. I enjoyed your six!
It’s a whole breed of telepathic dogs.
Interesting. I like reading more about the way the inter-species telepathy works.
Congrats on the review!
Inter-species gets difficult, even when both are mammals. My dogs have no sense of time, for instance.
Great scene – you really put me there!
I just hope I can publish this one someday.
Great six. I love how you’ve written Coralie’s ability to mentally follow Bounce and what he senses. Looking forward to more!
It’s all contiguous since I started posting from War’s End a couple of months ago.
Really nice, believable description of how the woman and dog can work together on this search! Excellent excerpt (and congratulations on the 5 Stars too).
Good reviews (all 5 star so far) but very few of them.
That’s cool, seeing through the dog’s eyes. LIke.
The dogs are a big part of the trilogy.
Nice six Sue Ann, I could see what it’s like being a dog in this, and you describe the senses very well!
I have some better bits later, but I’m not sure SSS will still be around that long.