“Crap, Daniel did not tell me that it would hurt!” (Seth)
In a small open space in the forest lay a little child. That child materialized himself but it did sadly not know that it would hurt a little bit.
The child tilted his head and looked around him, as if trying to understand where he is and if it is safe to stay there.
‘Hmm… a lot of trees with much variety. I think that if I must guess how tall the tallest tree is then I think 50 meters… most trees are foliage types. There are also trees with strange color patterns. Some trees look a bit blue and some red, and some even have a small color hue around them.’
The forest around Seth did indeed have a lot of variety, in both flora and fauna.
Seth stood up, with his child like body, and started to walk.
He was wearing simple clothes. A black shirt, black socks, black jeans, black underwear and black shoes.
There was a small breeze and the temperature is mild. There are few clouds floating in the sky, and the sun is shining bright.
‘I must find water, or else I will be dead in three days. Shelter is second priority and food is third. If the air starts to feel more wet and colder, then that means that I will be closer to a water source.’
Seth stood up and started walking. after some time walking he stops to a sudden halt.
‘These are markings. There is no doubt about it...’
Seth started inspecting the tree in front of him.
‘These marks, they are not natural. It seems that something or someone cut these carvings in this tree. Although they are real thin and I want to say that they are humanoid made, this world changed so much that there may be a possibility that some creature did this.’
Seth turned his head right, and saw a river further away from him.
‘Water! Good, now I can drink a bit, and in the reflection, maybe I can see how I look.’
Seth started walking to the river while looking around him so that if there are hostiles around him, he would notice them faster.
‘Hehe, finally.’
*Slurp*
‘Much better. Now, how do I look?... Green eyes, black hair, normal facial structure. Normal ears, nose, mouth, no scars or other facial additions… I look like a child, possible six to ten years old.’
*rustle*
As Seth studied himself while staring in the reflection of the water, in the bushes farther away from him a sound rustling sound was heard. Seth heard it and immediately turned his attention towards it.
‘I have to be cautious, one wrong move and I am dead… I should take one of those stones in this river, and if something happens I can at least use something to defend myself.’
As Seth picked up a stone, a strange creature appeared from the bushes. It looked as if a wolf was mixed with a fox, and it had a lot of muscle. Brown fur with black stripes in it, showing its teeth of as if he found some delicious snacks to eat. Paws like a dog, and two tails, both brown with black endings. The size of it was a bit bigger than a normal adult wolf.
“what the fuck? I can’t beat that, not even with a stone. Got to think quick!” (Seth)
The creature started walking towards Seth, and it was approximately about 20 meter from him.
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Seth turned around, looked in the river and jumped in it.
‘all or nothing, I have to swim; I am not strong enough to fight that kind of monster with this underdeveloped body.’
The water itself looked perfectly clean, you could see clearly in the water what was swimming in it.
The river had a medium current, and Seth started swimming to the other side of the river.
In the river, there were all kinds of fish, normal ones that resemble Earth’s kind of fishes, and complete different types of fishes. One looked like some amphibian fish. It had feet instead of fins. And its color was yellow.
‘I really hope that thing does not like swimming. When I get out, I should immediately search for a shelter, or at least a safe-zone.’
After being in the river for a few minutes, Seth finally arrived on the other side of the river, and climbed out of it. He looked left and right, and back to confirm if the creature is still chasing it. The creature was nowhere to be seen. So, Seth stood up and started walking again.
‘In front of me there are less tall trees and more clearings. I must watch out for ambushes. Who knows who or what is lying in wait for me. Although I can see some hills further away, I still must be cautious of what may be between them and me.’
Seth walked as if he was in sneaking stance, and slowly but steady he advanced towards the hills.
After what may have been a few hours, he finally arrived at the foot of the hills. But he was not prepared for what he saw.
‘How is it possible? Here are those markings again, only this time carved in stone. I can now be certain that this is humanoid made, and not monster.’
After inspecting the stones closer, it was as if the letter began giving of faint light. Seth started inspecting it and he thought that it was resembling a sentence.
Seilqofei flyeim sys ys omei of ool leisyg floqeis.
‘I wonder who made it... Well never mind that now. I need to find shelter and some food. Though there is a cave entrance there in the distance, I first need to ascertain myself that there are no hostiles around.’
Starting to walk to the cave entrance, Seth noticed more carvings on stones that stood along the way towards the cave, but he paid no attention to them for he was looking around to be certain that there are no enemies here.
After few minutes of walking towards the entrance of the cave at the foot of the hill, he looked inside.
‘There is nobody in here, and it seems that this cave was not used for quite a time, for the torches that hung at the walls of the cave were completely burnt out. There was firewood in the middle of the cave but it was not used.’
‘Lucky me, I do not need to go search for firewood. Now I only need to find food. Maybe there is some food in the cave?’
Seth walked into the cave, and noticed that it is bigger than he expected. The entrance was 3 around long and 2-meter width with around 2 meters in height, while the interior was around 5 meters long, width and 4 in height. It also had a small opening in the ceiling above the fireplace.
‘I assume that this is some kind of field headquarters. Also, the opening sends away the smoke that the fire makes so that the cave does not become a death chamber, and there is a steady flow of fresh wind here.’
Seth studied the cave cautiously, for the thoughts of hostiles coming after him may be possible.
The walls left had a leaf heaps laying there. The right wall had chests laying in front of it.
After looking behind, him to make sure there are no hostiles around, Seth started walking towards the chests.
‘I wonder what is in those chests…’
Seth tried opening the first of the three chests with his hands though it did not budge.
Then he tried opening the second one, and it opened easy. In there was a dagger. Green in color of the blade and a black hilt. Its total length was about 30 centimeters, with the blade being 20-centimeter long.
“A dagger huh, nothing more of interest in this chest.” (Seth)
Seth walked to the third chest and opened it. In it were small bags the size of fists and brown in color.
He picked up one of the bags, and opened it.
‘This is bread, right? Must be MRE’s (Meal, ready to eat). I hope they have enough nutrients.’
In the bag were small bread like slices with some green looking jam. It smelled a bit sweet.
‘Sweet… too sweet maybe…but I feel my stomach filling up.’
After eating one of the slices, Seth walked again to the first chest, and put his dagger into a little opening that was on the back side of the chest.
“let’s see if this chest can withstand some handiwork.” (Seth)
After fidgeting for a while, Seth was able to cut out a piece of one plank next to one of the hinges, enough for his newly found dagger to fit in the opening.
“Now I just need to cut out the hinges.” (Seth)
Seth started cutting again, and this time he was trying to cut off the two hinges on the back of the chest.
“Damn, this will take a while. But if the chest is locked then it means that there must be valuable in it, maybe.” (Seth)
*Cling*
One of the hinges was cut out of the wood after some time.
“Now the other one.” (Seth)
*Cling*
“And now let’s see what my spoils of war are.” (Seth)
After the two hinges fell to the ground, Seth pushed the top of the chest aside, and looked what was in the chest.
“well, at least it is better than wasted time.” (Seth)
In the chest lay a few meter-long rope, eight bottles filled with red liquid, three bottles filled with blue liquid and one bottle filled with yellow liquid.
Seth took the rope, and took few sticks from the fire and made a simple drying rack. The rack was shaped in a pyramid form. After that he undressed himself and placed the clothes he had on him on the drying rack, and sat down next to the unlit fireplace.
“Alright, just as survival classes taught me, 2 dry sticks and some dry grass. Lay one dry stick horizontally and place the grass on it. Then use one point of the second stick to make the fir by rubbing the stick while it is on the grass. After it starts annealing blow weak and slowly until it starts burning. After the small firewood starts burning you can place bigger firewood on it or place the burning wood under the bigger firewood.” (Seth)
*Whoo* *Whoo*
After few hours, the grass finally started to anneal, and then burn.
Seth placed the small burning grass and firewood on the big fireplace, and place one bigger firewood log after the other until it looked like a normal campfire.
“Finally, it is already pretty dark outside, so I should get to sleep for now.” (Seth)
Seth lay down next to the fireplace, and went to sleep.