Hello readers, I'm sorry it took me this long to update. My grandma got sick and ended up in the hospital. So I had no time to write.
Also thank you for the reviews.
Frank finally got his fire started after about five minutes. Shadow just quietly stood by and watched in amazement.
"How did you do that with those two rocks?" Shadow asked Frank with awe in his mental voice.
Frank smiled at Shadow like he was like he was a young kid. "It took years of practice. And you need the right rocks to make a spark with. Plus you need something to catch the spark."
Frank reached into his pocket and pulled out two piece of cotton. "Watch closely." Frank said as he held the rocks in a specific angle and quickly hit the rocks together igniting one of the pieces of the cotton.
Shadow watch closely with amazement. "Why would you need to make a fire anyways?" Shadow finally asked.
"So I can see." Frank answered coolly.
Shadow was now confused. Why could he not see without fire?
Before Shadow could ask another question, Frank began to talk again. "Plus I need to cook my dinner. Can't do that without fire."
"Cook?" Shadow asked.
At that, Frank took out a piece of raw meat than said with laughter in his voice "yep I can't eat this raw."
Shadow was now dumb struck. He watched Frank take out a medal rack and place it over the fire than place the meat on it.
Frank began to hum as he took out a large fork, knife, spoon, and a smaller fork. Frank felt happy to have some company. Even if it was not what he expected.
At the same time Shadow was wondering what Frank was doing. Taking those odd things out of his bag, and making that weird sound.
After about five minutes the meat began to sizzle and pop and make noises.
"Oh time to flip it!" Frank said with excitement in his voice as he stabbed the meat with the big knife.
"Why are you doing this?" Shadow asked.
"I'm cooking this. I can't eat it raw." Frank answered.
Shadow was now confused so he asked "what's cook? And what's raw."
Frank looked at Shadow blankly. He was unsure how to answer, but then finally started
"The meat I just showed you was not cooked so it was raw. So I can't eat it. Cooking is what I'm doing to it now. So it is safe for me to eat."
Shadow was lost. "Why would it not be safe to eat? It looked good the way it was"
Frank began to explain about how it was full of bacteria that could be fatal to him, and how it tasted better when cooked.
Shadow did not fully understand.
"He is quite a curious thing." Frank thought to himself, he liked it. He liked Shadow.
"It's done!" Frank said as he started to put the steak on a bunch of paper plates.
"It does have an intriguing smell." Shadow thought to himself.
Frank started to cut the steak into a bunch of small pieces than looked up at Shadow and said. "Do you want to try a piece?"
Shadow didn't know. It did smell good but it was strange to him to eat burned meat.
At that Frank placed a large piece of the steak on a separate plate and placed it in front of Shadow.
Shadow reluctantly picked up the piece of meat and bit it with his second set of jaws.
"Wow I've never tasted anything like this before." Shadow thought to himself. Shadow didn't think he would like it but he did. Now he understood why Frank cooked it like he did.
"You like it?" Frank asked in a friendly tone.
"It's wonderful! I've never tasted anything like it." Shadow answered.
"I knew you would." Frank said with happiness in his voice.
After about 3 minutes Shadow started to ask some questions. "So why are you here? Don't humans have houses?"
Frank stopped eating. His happy expression turned into sadness.
"That is a long story Shadow." Frank answered
After a long pause Shadow started to speak again.
"Were you kicked out of your hive like me?" Shadow innocently asked.
Shadow's question made Frank chuckle.
"You could say that." Frank answered
"You really want to know?" Frank asked.
Shadow nodded. He was very curious on why Frank was here.
"Well, I'll tell you." Frank said.
