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Drugoe Nachalo

Again finding a good tree where he can rest, and where he can hide from most eyes. Dimitry climbed a tree and placed himself on biggest branch, catching his breath.

‘I will need to do more cardio…now what do I do with this…’ Dimitry looked at sleeping little monster in his hand. ‘Should I just kill it?’ weighing pros and cons he thought.

‘It’s unlike me to think so much about not important stuff…let’s just go with flow for now…’ concluding his thoughts Dimitry looked at sky. He always liked to look at sky, he didn’t know why but he always looked at it. His favorite sky is when it’s just about to rain or before storm, when sky turns dark and colors are not as bright. In time like those he can look at sky for hours.

While looking at sky, in corners of his eyes he noticed darkness starts to appear.

‘It haven’t happened for some time now…so I guess it’s to expect’ placing monster that was in his hand far away from him and so it was not in his sight. Dimitry sat again in comfortable position-

‘While I’m at it, why don’t I acquire more of mana,’ focusing on gathering mana from air, Dimitry dived deeper and deeper into meditation while darkness in his eyes spread and consumed his vision.

Opening his eyes, Dimitry looked at sky and saw reddish sun setting down, guessing that about five hours passed while he was in trance he give a sigh.

‘So about the same amount of time as usually…’ trying to remember when it started Dimitry could not come up with an answer. After that accident and after what he saw, he gotten this. Doctors could not particularly help either as they debated with each other over what specifically it was. But majority agreed that it was because of that accident. Doctors were torn because of his symptoms which were, every one or two months Dimitrys’ consciousness would slip into darkness and he would be stationary without doing anything, he would just sit there and don’t do anything. But if someone were to annoy him in that state he would attack that person without caring what happens to them. Because of that he was prescribed a medicine after he almost killed his classmate. Medicine, which he didn’t take, because how could he trust someone with medicine when they didn’t even know what is wrong with him. But after few time getting into that state, Dimitry could guess when it’s about to happen. So he would find place without anyone and stay there for few hours. After doing so few times and after some time, he lied to his doctors saying he have not had those trance like states happen to him anymore, after which he was releases from taking pills and going to hospital.

Checking his mana quantity, Dimitry saw that it was full. Stretching from not moving for long time, Dimitry stood on his feet and looked around. He was standing on meter wide branch, close to a river to see it and hidden by other branches so he is not in full view. Going to where he placed little monster, he saw that it was still sleeping form exhaustion.

“Rooo—rrooorrr!” sounded echo of beast roaring through forest.

‘Would be wise to wait for morning’ having decided on what to do, Dimitry started to manipulate his mana in various ways as he was not sleepy.

‘Repetition seems to be a key on improving mana control’

After some time he noticed he was almost out of mana, and felt tired.

‘So low mana, makes me tired it seems,’ laying in comfortable position, and looking at sky that was almost dark, as sun has completely vanished. Dimitry fell asleep.

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Opening his eyes, he saw little hamster-squirrel and with tree curl horns looking at him. Sitting up from his laying position, he said-

“Haven’t run away yet, for some reasons?” getting nothing in response, Dimitry looked at ground below. Seeing no monsters he descended tree, and little monster followed him. Throwing stick close to a river he waited for minute while little monster looked at him, after nothing happening he walked to a river. Looking at his reflection, he saw beard starts to grow on his face-

‘Damn, I hate shaving, but it’s not like I have mean to shave right now, and my mana control is not good enough to make stick sharp as a razor, but its improving quite a lot...’ drinking little of water, Dimitry washed his face and saw as little monster was imitating him. First it drunk water, then with its small wet paws started to rub its face. Looking at this Dimitry turned around and stared walking-

“Let’s go,” he said and saw as little monster followed him.

“I will name you Thor,”

“qui-i!” little monster named Thor gave an approving peep.

After walking by familiar looking berries, Dimitry asked Thor –

“Are they safe to eat?”

“qiiu,” Thor gave negative peep, while shaking its head from side to side.

Walking farther Dimitry saw different colored berries-

“Are this safe?”

“quii-i!” Thor gave approving peep. Taking one berry up, Dimitry passed it to Thor-

“Here eat first,”

Thor without hesitation starts eating it, after two minutes of Dimitry looking if anything happens to Thor, decided it’s safe to eat. Picking up berry, Dimitry bites half of it, and start chewing.

‘It’s sweet…too sweet…but sugar should help with energy, body needs’ though Dimitry not being fan of anything too sweet. Placing all other berries in his free pocket on hoodie, Dimitry walked downstream, not forgetting to feed Thor who eat berries with happy look.

While walking by the river Dimitry had to hide five times from monster who all looked bizarre, except one time when it was just normal bear. All those times he spotted monsters in far distance and took to hiding and waiting for them to leave. But one time when he was walking and decide to rest by tree monster who looked like a wolf walked from near bush. Slowly moving behind a tree, Dimitry, waited for monster to attack, as it was from dog family it got to have good nose. But after monster drunk water it went back to a forest only once glancing in Dimitry direction.

‘Now this is weird, how could he not smell me so near him, he should be able to find pray in forest not only with his sight. And all those other monsters there should be some that focus on smell…” getting nowhere with his thoughts, Dimitry decided to continue moving with Thor on his shoulder.

After one hour of walking he saw what he have not expected to see in forest. There was a wooden bridge over river. Looking very old but without any rotted wood, which was unusual with so much of moisture. Connecting bridge on both sides was slightly noticeable trail.  Coming closer to a bridge Thor started to move a little which was unusual as he never moved on Dimitry shoulder till this moment. Looking at Thor Dimitry saw he was sniffing something in ear, doing the same Dimitry started to notice smell.

It was unpleasant smell, and it came from opposite side of river.

“Think we should check it out?”

“Quiiiu,” Thor undecidedly voiced.

Picking up flat rock on ground, Dimitry took pen out of his pocket and draw small dot on it.

“If its dot side up we are going to check where this smell comes form, if its other side we are going opposite direction,” flipping rock in the air, Dimitry extended arm to catch it. After rock successfully landed in his hand Dimitry and Thor looked at it. There was nothing drawn on rock.

 “Let’s go check the smell,” said Dimitry to a Thor

“qii-e?” confusedly voiced Thor.

“I don't like to trust someone, even if it’s Fate, or random chance” said Dimitry walking closer to a bridge. After few seconds of standing there he walked onto bridge. Successfully crossing it he was now on opposite side of river, and smell only worsened.