He sat down in front of the invisible barrier, watching that group of giant otters recovering from their encounter with the hell fox. Each of them seemed to be dressing each other while those who had finished began to organize their bags. Signs of injuries and fine blood are visible in some of them, how far the claws and teeth of this fox managed to penetrate their skin.

It just makes me think how lucky we were when we ran into him earlier, if he hadn't said to climb the wall I'm afraid we wouldn't be here. He may be annoying and stupid, but he has his moments. I have never encountered anything like this in my life before.

"Let's wait here for a while until they get out of here. I don't want to cross them again. I kind of feel like if we try to get down while they're here, they'll eat us alive."

He turned to me when he said these words.

I didn't make a sound. All we did was just look at them out of choice.

It went on like this for a long time until from the horizon coming from the ruins came the muscular otter and Joinahan who had gone with him earlier, brought something that resembled a fallen tree without engravings, fibrous and extremely shiny. As they placed this thing on the grass and began to help the others, the human began to speak:

"This is what they were looking for in this ruin: a treasure box! I understand now what they did there and why they are like that" he grinned and continued to watch what was happening. We didn't hear clear voices from them, not like before, but it seemed that the muscular otter started to make his loud voice:

'Where's the boy!?' he said.

'We put them quite far away, don't expect him to be back yet. Big hogs like these are also hard to move and obey' one of them told him.

'Don't tell me the obvious! I'm not in the mood for more problems anyway. And if we talk about him...'

He looked in the direction of the meadow at the same time that I commanded the body to turn its head in that direction as well. One could see a large, black group of large creatures in front of which, in relation to them, they were led by a small otter. With each passing moment, their shape grew until we could see how big the hogs were. So big that if they were standing on their feet, I would guess they could reach the branch we are on.

The human also looked at their mirror through the invisible barrier, surprised by their size:

"I've never seen such a big wild boar in my life"

They were all black, strung with straps like the bags they wore. You could see how much their teeth protruded through the jaw and some looked like large spikes.

'Just in time Khilled! At least you can fulfill such an order he began to signal to the others to put their things on the hogs while he continued to speak:

'I still don't forgive what happened there...'

'Leave the boy alone! He is not to blame for this just like everyone else here. Why are you attacking him?'

He helped the little otter and began to move toward him:

' Didn't I mention that you won't get involved in this?! We lost quite a bit today just because of the carelessness he was responsible for. A price Shilero paid to get it out of the ruins! A very heavy price' he said while the others packed their things on the hog and began to harness them.

'I know he's a close friend of yours, but still..'

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No still! The boy messed up too many times! I'm tired of it! He has already made several mistakes that have already broken my back more than enough. That's going to wrap it up when we get there. I don't care where he came from or why, he is incapable of being responsible for such a thing. I should have listened to him earlier and released him earlier.'

He stuck his limbs on it while the little otter heard it all and mounted the furthest hog from them, his back bent from the situation. The muscular otter continued to speak as he began to help put the shiny box on the largest hog:

'I'm going to release him from our group with the money he'll earn, but I don't want to see his face anymore, hear me?!'

They finished preparing everything and then one by one they started to ride the hogs, like a big convoy. The sound of growls was heard but slowly as they moved away from the tree we were sitting in until they were swallowed up by the horizon of the meadow. The sun began to move towards the sunset from its position in the sky. The human began to move towards me and looked at me:

"Let's get out of this place. I'm feeling thirsty and I think you are too. Let's just move on to the river we were in before... then... I don't know, try to survive? I really don't know what to do." He giggles.

[Isn't that what we've been doing until now?]

I undoubtedly also agreed with him that we should leave the place. Without any waiting, the body already followed my instructions - from getting down from the tree and moving forward to try to follow his steps from where the river was.

I don't have a particularly good memory of where it is, but I'm surprised that the human does remember more or less where it is.

"Do you see that stone? We need to head there" he explained to me, being unable to directly control where the body should go. We reached the river as the sun began to set, as it was before, with a weak but noisy flow and we sipped from it.

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It was not an easy time from this point. Every night we climbed trees to rest and try our luck to find something to eat. Sometimes it did succeed, but later in the day, the human suggested that we follow the river.

I did not oppose him. As much as I wanted.

I haven't exactly kept track of how much time has passed, but at least the wall on the side does keep track of it. The appearance of the body also changed a little in each reflection of the body as it sips from the running water, the appearance changes a little each day as the body grows bigger, but apart from that, not many things have changed. Except if there were strange creatures, and there were those who drank from the river, the human always broke his legs in fear. Ridiculous, but useful.

We followed the path of the river until we reached a large crossing between the two banks of the river. Unlike the last time, the meadow and the fields are the ones that accompanied us most of the time, and once it was a forest, but this time the appearance is different.

"This is a bridge. A bridge that someone built" the human addressed me:

"It was to be expected that we would encounter something like this, let's go up to it for a moment, I want to check something there"

The body moved towards the bridge, which seemed to be made of wood and stone, and without dwelling on the sight, he signaled me to look in a certain direction. A thin bare tree stood on one side of the bridge with what looked like two strange flat branches. The invisible barrier began to show signs of it:

"It must be the info working again," he said as he looked. I am with him, even though the signs were particularly strange, that human called them 'written', I still understood them.

"On one side it shows that if we go this way, we'll come to a place called 'Apingley'. And on the other side, it says it's in the direction of 'Launcester', with another saying it's also on the way to 'Stotford'. I don't know any of them. I'm quite sure that if we continue with the river, we might reach the sea in the end. I don't know what to say. Shall we draw lots? Or maybe we'll turn back?"

He scratches his head. It seems that freedom is not something he is particularly familiar with.

[You want to let me decide again. You were already afraid of giant rats and I still haven't found a worm to eat to annoy you. Oh well.]

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Name: ----

Title: ----

Species: Raphus cucullatus (Dodo bird)

Age: (11 days) - Hatchling | (73% growth)

HP: 100% | Stamina: 71% | Karma: -1

Abilities: Tweet | Climb | Run | Universal understanding | Info

Growth option path: Unknown

General information:

It is a moderately flightless bird. They are mostly herbivores that eat fruits, seeds, and roots but are also able to eat and crake mollusks, crustaceans, and fish when the opportunity arises.

Their large and powerful beaks are capable of causing quite a bit of damage and are adapted to the food they eat, but they will more often than not choose to flee rather than fight, even though they have no natural fear.

This is a bird that does not exist in this world and should not exist. There is nothing like her in this world.

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