Otter Creek brass knife sinks into my shoulder

Meridian had been following his brother, trying to spy on him to eventually sneak up on him and try to scare him. When he had seen Dusty come down from the mountains, Meridian had started tracking his scent until he found him, out here by the lake. There was frost on the ground already and soon the lake would start to freeze over, but until then he too would appreciate it.

Meridian saw that Dusty was maybe trying to fish, but he didn't care and decided to follow through with his plan to scare him anyway. He stood on a higher ground that Dusty, making sure his scent was downwind so Dusty couldn't smell him, before leaping out at his brother and hitting him on the shoulders, hoping to bring him to the ground even though he didn't weigh any more than Dusty. "Heya Dust!" Meridian said from atop his brother