u/jamieT97

So I'm working on a long form fanfiction piece and the key part of the story relies on one important crux

Setting the scene, our lord is visiting Redwall for the harvest feast. It is interrupted by the gatekeeper reporting vermin at the gates, so the lord goes to investigate and receives more information from those outside that there is one person by the gates and four more out in the field having chased the one by the gates bust stopped before getting too close to Redwall.

The lord opens the gates and finds a fox in a bad state, who collapses with exhaustion. Is it sensible for the lord to bring her in?

The next day a large horde has formed outside evidently chasing this fox. One of the horde masters servants asks for the fox to be returned and they will leave. The horde leader lies and says that the fox is a murderer, and the lord should give her back. Again is it sensible for the lord to refuse considering how redwall and the long patrol typically treats foxes?

When speaking in real life, it is normal to slip up, to stumble over words or mix up parts of a sentence. in movies and writing though, it's kept rather clean unless it's relevant for the character.

Do you make your dialogue clean or do you put in stumbles, pauses, or rewording a sentence after starting

Had an idea for a story that involves a human fleeing the RDA before the events of Avatar one and at a different base.

So the Air is toxic, the food is toxic and there are a lot of things that want to kill you. The human makes friends with the Na'vi so they have some help and they have time to prep a small stash of supplies but don't have access to RDA bases except for stealing supplies.

How long could they last

What would they need to steal at minimum to survive