I wasn't suprised to wake up this time. Taking my time in getting up I start to rethink my approach to this situation. I can't continue like this. I'm going to have to take a step back, look at it in a different light.

My last life was the exact opposite of what I should be doing, not to say it wasn't educational. The longest I ever got was when I ate the berries. In that life everything I did was planned and thought out. Letting my emotion rule my decisions is not the way to go, both mentally and physically.

I need to learn from my failures and exceed my past self. Food and water is going to be a big problem, the berries proved that, and I haven't heard flowing water in my entire time in the forest. The goblins are a possible food source but that is absolute last thing I would try, just thinking about it causes me to shudder, maybe my emotions should rule somethings.

I should try to forage around and not eat every single little thing in sight, no matter how hungry I am. As I see it the cabin is the safest place in the forest, no reason not to use it. It may be time to think about it not as something to run away from, but to embrace. Maybe I can finally get something to comfortably sleep on.

Finding food in the forest that isn't poisonous shouldn't be that hard. Eating only a very little and seeing if it affects me in any way should be safe, well... safer. As for water, it wouldn't hurt to listen around the dome for it, staying close incase anything bad happens.

Speaking of the dome, I never tested if I could walk into it just as I could out of it. I'm going to have to test that later, once I've already came up with a avenue of approach. Wouldn't do any good to get stuck out there without being prepared.

Fighting the goblins is definitely possible. The only reason I didn't do it last time was because I was already practically dead on my feet. With the staff it didn't take that much force to kill one of them and disregarding the failure that was the suprise attack, it wasn't ever that close of a fight. If it comes down to it, with a staff I could hold my own.

That brings me to my last and most pressing thought, magic, if it even is that. There's no doubt being sent back to life after death and seeing in the dark is unatural. Whatever it is, it comes remarkedly close to magic, and in my book that makes it close enough.

If I spent my time foraging around the cabin, try and find a water source, and somehow don't get me killed in the prosess, I may be able to sustain myself. That would give me enough time to get a handle on this magic and learn enough about walking around the forest to go unseen, that would be my ticket out of this hellhole. It probally won't go off without a hitch, but hopefully I can learn from my mistakes, and adapt.

Feeling alot better about tomorrow, and done planning, there isn't no time like now. That leaves me to decide what to do first. While magic is a very tempting prospect, it would waste to much time. I always wake up with a full stomach but that's nothing in the grand sceme of things. I need to get started on being self suficeint and the sooner I do that the sooner I can start on magic. That leaves foraging and finding a water source.

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Coming close to the veil like dome, I take a second to calm my raging thoughts. I'm going to take this easy, Look for what I need to live and then walk right back into dome again, if I even can. Taking the plung into the forest once again takes me by suprise, truly, it's like a whole other world. Shaking off these distrating thoughts, I start looking for anything to use as substance.

Instead of walking in a straight line I start by going around the dome, only going out a short amount. By the time I had come full circle it felt like only a couple minutes have passed, way shorter than it should.

Forgoing foraging for a minute, I decide to puzzle over this mystery. mentally marking my current spot I walk around the dome keeping track of the distance I should have walked. My conclusion, it's smaller than the inside. Walking around the dome from inside should have taken me 2 minutes, out here, barely even 40 seconds. Another question among a long list regarding magic.

Mystery solved, I begin my search again. After doing this until the dome gets just out of my eye sight makes me question if there's anything of worth near the dome. It did take me a long walk to get to the last barries I saw, they could possibly not be near it at all.

Luckily, after only about 30 minutes after that thought, I find a plant that looks as if it has something to eat on it. Learning from my last failure, I take my time inspecting it. The plant looks alot different to the last one, not nearly as bright and although the berries look similar, their different.

Taking only a few berries in my hand, I start walking to the dome. I have no idea how to keep food fresh, meaning that if I don't want to waste anything, I'll have to eat it as soon as I pick it.

Coming to the twisted and warped look of the dome wasn't any easier to handle this time. I had been trying limit my exposure to it, and now I'm going to walk through this potentially deathly magical thing.

Deciding it's better to get it over with I squeeze my eyes shut, hoping that I don't come to in the cabin, and walk in. When all my body goes through the dome I feel myself twist and bend, something I never would have been able to understand before I had undergone it, transcending mortal means.

After going through this for what feels like a couple seconds, but somehow I know only a very small moment has passed, I hesitently open my eyes. I'm back in the cabin, and before I start to freak out I notice I'm still standing. When dying I wake up laying down, not standing up. It worked, and if the weight in my hand is any indication the barries also crossed with me.

Setting down the berries before I begin the test I study them, looking for anything obvious that would suggest I shouldn't eat them, they look fine. That leaves the only step left. Picking up the smallest one in the group, I bring it up to my lips.

Depending on the results this could be the difference between me having to brave the forest further out, or being able to live relatively worry free. Putting it into my mouth and chewing slowly I try to keep my expectations at bay. It doesn't taste bad, and it definitly doesn't taste like heaven, a win in my book.

It's probably better to spend the rest of the day waiting for any adverse side afects. The forest is dangoures enough, I don't need possible poisin in my viens while in it . Putting my back into the cabin I start to settle myself in, and given that I'm not going to be moving anytime soon, it may be a good time to experiment with magic.