Chapter 3

When night comes and I have to retreat back into the tree, I have made a pretty nicely sized wall between two trees. I don't think it would stop a bear or something, but I will stop the wolves. I wait without sleeping, and I can already hear the wolves coming. Their brother is hanging from a branch, not twenty feet away, maybe I should throw a stone at it if I had a stone.  

I've gotten better at this trap laying thing, and both the wolves got hit by my traps! Booyah! I get my bow ready, but I don't fire it. I need to wait until I know they can't more or they're going to die eventually. I have to conserve arrows no matter what. Dang, I just thought about putting the dead wolf in my inventory. Shit, I've been putting the bow in and out of my inventory, I should have thought of that!  

The two wolves stagger up and limp into the forest, leaving a trail of blood. I take a look at my wall and the last remaining traps, and I head to sleep. Sleep is still relaxing after all.  

In the morning, I add the wolf to my inventory.  

>**Inventory**  

>Wooden Bow  

>Wooden Arrow x9  

>Wooden Arrow, Used  

>Dead Wolf, Toothless  

I guess that all is reasonable. I've got another day to prepare for nightfall, so I gather all kinds of rocks and sticks and add them to my inventory. From what I can tell, there is no limit to how much my inventory can hold, which is nice. I place most of the smaller and larger sticks in the wall, adding another tree distance to it, but keep the throwable sticks and rocks in my inventory. I reset all the traps with rocks and sharper sticks, but I keep the area with my wall clear of traps. I want to see if the wolves can break it.  

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At night, I climb back into my tree and start something new, making fire. I remember watching an episode of Survival Sissy or something where the guy uses a bowstring to make... DAMMIT! I've been needing string this whole time, and I've had some on my bow! I can repurpose my bow and arrows to make better traps!  

However, do I really want to destroy my bow... damn, I don't. Anyways, back to making fire. I put a stick inside the bowstring after loopdy loopdy-ing the thing and then I move it really fast against a rock. Something like that. I try it a few times, but I don't manage to make anything close to a flame, or smoke, or fire. I guess it is really cold here.  

I wait for the wolves to arrive, but it never happens. When the sun comes up, I am safe from the wolves all night. I spend the day making more traps and collecting more sticks and stones. I could explore, but I really want to kill those wolves before I leave my area of safety. If something were to happen and I couldn't get back to a certainly safe place quickly, I would be dead. I need to do everything I can to ensure that doesn't happen.  

The night, the wolves came back.