Coal seemed to have dissapeared deep inside of the bush.

His fur covered from head to toe with a lot of leaves and some broken branches of the bush. It looked itchy and maybe a bit painful, but Coal really didn't care much.

His eyes were sparkling with light and curious while his chest heaved up and down made him looked nervous even though it just something very normal for someone who had just run with supersonic speed to finish a deadline. Which in his case, was running from the wooden cave to the bush near the woods and it wasn't very long but also wasn't short either.

He didn't know what kind of animal would go out of the wooden cave. He used to meet a bear once but he really didn't thought that the bear could do anything to cut down the trees and made them flat with its big hands, which even bigger than his torso left a lone made a hundred trees cave like the one in front of his eyes.

But if it was not a bear, then what were it? What could live in that tall, big wooden cave? Another specie that shared the same ancestor as rabbit?

But to his surprise, what came out of the cave contradicted all of his imaginations. It was a ... he didn't know. It has four legs but only walked in the two lower ones, it looked very thin and although maybe it less strong and less bigger than a bear but it was still a lot taller than him.

If he had to compared, at that time he was a 6 years old rabbit kid. Then it was three times as tall as him when he was standing up, but only a half as tall as a bear when the bear was standing up.

Maybe, maybe there was another one inside? Much bigger, much stronger than the bear and more intellegent than the thin creature?

Yes, maybe. Maybe the thin creature just was its pet?

He had to be careful.

***

The thin creature walked out of the cave, looked at the broken ice hole once and then returned to the cave as if nothing had happened.

Coal looked at its back and the wooden cave for a few more seconds while thinking about what he should do in the future.

Every thing went fine, and he couldn't expect for more. But if he breaking into the cave now, it would be very dangerous. He didn't know if his guess was right or not and he also didn't know what the thin creature could do. If he somehow made a mistake, he didn't know if he could outrun the thin creature or not. It was just too dangerous but little reward.

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Even so, he still wanted to go inside. His water was about to running out and if he wanted to eat his food, he needed to wash it first or he would get stomach ache. He had already tried to eat anything that had the green color but if he recklessly swallowed even a little bit of snow, he would have to spend few day in agony.

In the past, everytime the winter came his parent would always store a lot of water and some strange fruit inside their warren in case something went bad and they couldn't go outside to find food but that year he had none such luck.

He had to survive on his own, and the chance for it was there, in front of his eyes. If he couldn't make it there, that year winter maybe would be his last. But even if he somehow successed, he would still need to do that for a long time and if the habitants inside the cave found out that him stole its food, they would not let it slip.

He thought he would need to fetch out a plan, a perfect one... But first, he could still last for another couple of days so le'ts just observe the cave and the thin creature first then decided latter. If he wanted to win his enemy he had to study about his enemy first, right?

***

He then used the whole day digging a hole near the wooden cave, under the bush which he used to hide from the thin creature the day before.

The hole was not very big but just had enough space for him to sleep and a little deeper into the ground for him to not be frozen to death while he was sleeping.

Actually, digging a hole would have been a lot easier if he was a little bigger. Back then he had already knew how, but with a 6 years old kid body he couldn't do it so fast.

After finished digging the hole, the sky was already dark so he tiredly slouched down to his new house and fell asleep.

Only when the Sun rose once again, Coal woke up and ate some food he prepared for himself, then busily thought about his plan again.

His first day plan worked well.

He saw the thin creature, had a glimpse about what was inside of the cave and safety escaped without being discovered. The only price he had to pay for those achievement was just simply a stone... a universal stone.

But despite his achievements so far, it couldn't satisfy all his curiousity. He still had a lot of question that had no answer.

In his first day, what if he threw the stone when the hole was orange instead of being black? Will the thin creature appear as well?

And would the thin creature make the broken ice hole fixed again liked what he saw before he was about to fall asleep? How could it do it?

Why sometimes the hole was black but sometimes else it was orange? Did it have a sun insise the cave? Would enter the cave dangerous? And if it not, would he have one, too?

...

Felt a little dizzy. Coal never thought that one day he would have so many thoughts in his small head.

He just woke up and hasn't even gotten his head out of the hole yet, but he started to feel sleepy again.

Nevermind. Why he had to care while he was just a small rabbit kid. If you needed answers, just ask the almighty stone instead. That what Coal said, maybe...

For him, he could just run away anyway.

***

A week had passed from the day the first universal stone sacrificed itself for the greater good. And exactly 6 days since Coal had stopped using his brain to solve problems.

Coal at that time had a very profound understanding about the thin creature and the wooden cave. Only after a lot of tried, yes.