He awakened lying on green mos in the half-shadow of a tree. The light was unusual bright and disturbed him as he opened his eyes. So he decided to not open his eyes and to not stand up yet. He heard *** *** of a source nearby. Something was different and before that something happened, but what...

He was left wondering with the feeling of an intangible event that he couldn't recall. Actually his entire mind was free of thought, even if he would have tried no thought was coming up. So he enjoyed the morning of whatever day it way where ever he was right now.

After some time he finally got up and took a look around. He was indeed in a ***forest and he could witness a *** streaming out of stones. This gained his attention, so he walked to the phenomena and saw it was a source. He satisfied his thirst on the fresh water of the source. He did what he learned as a child **auschöpfen of the water with both hands closed as a ***schaufel. Than it struck him, his childhood, he had a childhood but than again couldn't grasp any concrete detail of it. 'But there must be something' he thought, since he was a person and every person had a childhood right?

He tried to remember his past, he tried to remember who he was, he tried to understand what has happened to him. Slowly he was becoming desperate for any kind of memories. But his mind was unable to access any memory at all and therefore he was unable to make any sense of the situation. Not knowing what to do about it he started to wander aimless through the forest.

After some time he stopped looked around and realized he had absolutely no idea where he was and wished he would have realized that earlier, than he would have just followed the river. Rivers often lead to villages or cities and those hold people in them. But it was too late for that so he looked out for stars, because he heard once that people oriented themselves on stars. That was not so fruitful since it was morning. Than he followed the sun, which was nothing else but a very close star.

When his stomach began to grumble he looked out for food and realized that he was in the middle of a forest with no idea how to utilize this situation. Also he remembered that the sun was wondering and with that he was basically going in a giant circle. Since that was not promising for him to find people he could ask a ton of questions he turned slightly away from the sun and walked in another random direction.

His hunger grew over the hours walking through a foreign forest, but there was nothing he could do about it right now. He noticed that there must be animals in a forest, but so far he hasn't seen any and the birds he heard did not sound like the birds he knew of. Sometimes there was an outright inhuman screech in between the clacking and chirping. He was startled with fear the first time hearing and then moved on since that was one of the many things he couldn't do anything about.

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Finally he saw a part of stonewalls through the thick forest. He started to cheer himself up, 'there were after all other humans', he thought ready to meet people who could hopefully answer some questions. Actually he had a lot of questions, but he was also very hungry and maybe food would be saturating enough. Sadly the stones turned out be a part of long rotten rests of some building. The forest cleared towards that building and so did the view. All hopes seem to vanish as fast as they arrived. No humans, no settlement and also no food. He saw just crumbled walls, dusty floors and the beginning of some kind of tower what summarized into a ruin.

But what to do if not to linger in lost hope, he started to become curios and searched the ruins for something interesting. At first it was just ruins, but then he felt something, like a presence or a call to him. So he indulged himself in the search for something that he had not the slightest clue about the ramification that something would have.

'I have to find it' he thought to himself as his search grew more and more unsteady. He started to long for that object and became hungry for its promise. Maybe his hunger also converted into the desire to find the unknown object.

Through all the rubble he saw a glitter. That glitter turned out to be an orb. As he observed the orb closer he noticed an ominous glow radiating from it. As he hold the orb he suddenly felt empty, he stood up and walked right to the middle of the room. There he was compelled to clear the rubble from the ground. Even it was labourous work he felt nothing. In generell all he felt was emptyness and very certain directives. Those directives lead him to uncover a pattern caved into the ground. The pattern was a weird shaped triangle with three symbols on each end. The first was a circle with a line in the middle, he placed the orb on that symbol. The emptyness faded and he could think again. He wondered what he just did and looked closely at the shape on the ground. The second symbol was the symbol for female but with a halfcycle on top of it and the third symbol was a cross with a triangle as a head.

That made him curious where all this would lead. Now with renewed will he looked for objects that resembeled the shapes on the ground. First was the more obvious shape: the triangle. And truly, following the same feeling as before he found nearby a translucent triangle in the size of his hand. He followed the same method as he did or more fitting was done through him and placed the triangle on the fitting shape. 'Just one weird shape remaining' he thought and locked for something that fitted the last shape but could not even imagine what that would look like. What he could find was a random amount of tools that looked very much antiquated. Nothing of those resembled something female or looked like that shape. 'Maybe the shape means something else and I have to find that' since he had no clue what, he started to put tools one after the other on the third shape. 'Mhm nothing happens' he looked further around when he heard a hiss behind him. He turned fast round and saw a snake glide over the shapes on the ground, as it moved over the third shape the main triangle shape started to glow. The snake rolled itself up, the orb hovered over the ground and the triangle form emanated a warm light from within.

He moved closer until he stood in the middle of the shapes and objects and then his lights went out.