Dr. Johannes Kepler, a renowned astronomer and mathematician, proposed a more scientific explanation. "These fire red squirrels," he wrote, "may be the result of a freak celestial event, perhaps a comet or meteor that passed close to Earth, imbuing the local wildlife with its fiery essence."
Rust did not have words. He had action.
Fire, his ancestors' memory whispered. Run.
On the morning of August 12th, the wind came. Rust was perched on the highest limb of a lightning-blasted oak. His fur was the color of embers, a tawny red that seemed to glow. He watched a plume of smoke rise beyond the far ridge, not gray like a campfire, but yellow-white, churning like a living thing.
They called him Rust the Ember-Kin. And for a hundred years after, no hunter in Oakhaven would raise a hand against a red squirrel. For they remembered: when the world burned, it was the smallest red fire that showed them the way home.
1636 Location: Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony Subject: Introduction of Non-Native Species, Wildlife History
Dr. Johannes Kepler, a renowned astronomer and mathematician, proposed a more scientific explanation. "These fire red squirrels," he wrote, "may be the result of a freak celestial event, perhaps a comet or meteor that passed close to Earth, imbuing the local wildlife with its fiery essence."
Rust did not have words. He had action.
Fire, his ancestors' memory whispered. Run. fire red squirrels 1636
On the morning of August 12th, the wind came. Rust was perched on the highest limb of a lightning-blasted oak. His fur was the color of embers, a tawny red that seemed to glow. He watched a plume of smoke rise beyond the far ridge, not gray like a campfire, but yellow-white, churning like a living thing. He had action
They called him Rust the Ember-Kin. And for a hundred years after, no hunter in Oakhaven would raise a hand against a red squirrel. For they remembered: when the world burned, it was the smallest red fire that showed them the way home. On the morning of August 12th, the wind came
1636 Location: Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony Subject: Introduction of Non-Native Species, Wildlife History