Chapter 126: Santino’s Survival School Part 1

“Let’s go, mommy, let’s go,” Olivia said, tugging on Serena’s arm. Oliver and Santino were already walking ahead, and Olivia was impatient to catch up. “We’re going,” Serena said with a chuckle.

“We are falling behind!” Olivia said with a dramatic wail.

“You can go and catch up,” Serena said. She pushed Olivia forward. Olivia ran off to catch up with her twin and uncle.

Santino had dropped by at their house for a visit. He said he had a special game planned for the kids. Serena couldn’t say no. She wanted to see what it was that Santino had planned, and she wanted the kids to have the chance to get out and play in the woods.

They were heading into the woods near her house. Despite not being a pack member, Santino seemed to know his way around. He’d helped with some of the rogues, which meant traversing Night Sky territory. “Where are you taking us, Santino?” Olivia asked. “It isn’t that much further,” he assured. “Where are we going?” Serena asked, picking up the pace so she could catch up to her brother and her kids.

a place nearby with a stream,” he said. “I thought it was time to teach the kids some of their base survival skills. They do have a rich heritage of surviving in the

 young age. “That sounds good to me,” Serena said. They made it to the stream. The trees parted slightly so there was plenty of underbrush around the stream and across the forest floor. The sun was shining brightly, and it was a good day to be out in

intense are you going to get with this?” she asked, knowing her brother could take things over the top a lot. “Don’t worry” Santino said. “Nothing too adventurous or dangerous, at least not today,” he assured. Serena rolled her eyes,

little knives in here,” Olivia said after the twins had torn the

for my survival class. Pick which one you want, and

the purple knife and Oliver was happy to have the red one. Serena raised an eyebrow at her brother. Giving kids knives wasn’t exactly what

and they have a release to open.” Santino dropped down on one knee to show the twins how the knives worked. “The blades are sharp,” he warned. “Don’t ever touch those with your fingers. Practice opening and closing them.” While the twins played with their knives, Santino stood beside Serena again. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a full-sized pocket knife for her. Serena recognized it as the one her father had given to her when he was teaching her the same survival skills.

thing you need to do if you are in a survival situation is to make fire. It will come in handy for a lot of things like warmth, cooking, sending up smoke signals.” “Fire?” Serena asked. “Santino, your definition of ‘safe’ is really…” she trailed off when Santino shook his head at

 
 

this when we were there age,” he reminded her. Serena sighed, but she nodded. “Okay, these are special knives with special blades,” Santino said. “I can show you how to make fire in two different ways,

You’ll each need your own rock, and it has to be dry and free of dirt,”

“I remember what is was like to learn these skills from

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