ZWD: Inside Chapter 14

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Bow practicing in the library seemed like a logical thing to do. Their inside a safe building with long isles much like a firing range and they have walls at the end they can tear up with target practice.  I've already talked about the Archers Paradox about pointing the arrow not at the target you are trying to hit but to the side of it so that you can hit your target, it's a weird way of aiming but it works. In Japanese Archery due to the style in which they shoot they hold the bow in a very strict weird looking posture that doesn't seem like it would work but it does.

      

But it allows them to shoot that arrow a very long way with deadly accuracy.  So accurately that they can reportedly shoot under many low arches and strike their target with ease. Although the library has fairly high ceilings this was what I had in mind when I had them practicing in the isle, a narrow field and a restricted arching space for the arrows when fired. I know that given his previous demonstration of not being able to literately hit the side of a barn to being able to strike his target in a confined space in such a short time is a miraculous achievement but it's my story and what are you going to do? I needed him to get better fast so he did.    


The firetruck killing machine was one of my favorite scenes to write about in a previous chapter. The question came up in editing wither or not those hoses would still be flailing about or would they have emptied by now. From my experience on the firefighting teams in the navy; as long at those hoses were charged (pressure applied) they would flail about. I did not imagine anyone coming along shutting off pressure to the hoses so I think they would continue. I may be wrong. I probably am but it makes a great visual.  

Car fires and target practice together, how much fun is that? They had just spent hours int he library practicing on a wall.They needed to, he needed to, she was doing fine, get in some dead action target practice on moving targets. Naturally it wasn't going to go well.

In this chapter it wasn't so much the archery that was important to me but the fact that they had been living basically homeless for so long that dumpster diving was done without so much as a grown. He needed empty bottles so in he went and neither one thought much of it. They had gone from professional upper middle class to professional dumpster divers with ease of necessity. I'm still not sure if it was a demonstration of adaptability or depredation.