"GO!" shouted Thyme as they vanished.
Everyone took off in one motion, leaving their axes behind. Kat quickly found herself drawing ahead of the pack, and March was getting slightly ahead, but not really breaking away like Kat was. Kat looked over the log stacks. Each stack was a bit taller than she was, and the best way to carry them wasn't entirely obvious. Or rather, how many you could carry while moving at top speed wasn't obvious.
Kat had some ideas flash through her mind but quickly decided on what she thought was the best one. Kat swiftly grabbed a stack wincing as her fingers dug into the soft wood. *Let's ignore that. I'll just throw away the bottom log because I'm pretty sure it won't count.* Kat snaked her tail around so that it ran along the side of the log nearest to her body, and she took off with full speed. The stack did wobble slightly, but Kat was running in a straight line and her tail kept it all together.
