Winter came
The once green vibrant forest with rich floral scent and is filled birds chipping and animals doing their mating call. Turns back to a silent frozen wasteland seemingly devoid of life as the animals went into hibernation and the birds migrated.
Not wanting to wander outside the base too much in this cold climate he decided to upgrade his walls.
He added ramparts! If anybody attacks his base he could just go up on the ramparts and shoot back at them.
Working is in the winter is much harder then in the summer besides that the freezing cold seems to slow down his movements, the snow also piles up further hindering his movements, not to mention you gets injured easier.
'Maybe it's the cold that causes the skin to losses its elasticity' William wondered as his hands got injured from a slight grazed from a dry piece of wood.
It's started to bleed profusely despite being from such a light wound so William decided to call it a day.
After that William decided to take it easy so the construction took a considerable more time to built.
Next William decided to plaster the walls with a layer of cement to make them last longer and to make them look more wally.
Now it's looks more like a stone wall which should increase the intimidation factor there by making these primitives less likely to attack him. Also with a layer of cement around it William is no longer worried of the primitives setting fire to his walls.
Although this construction did require a substantial amount of cement. He has to make a few trips out of the base to gather lime but besides that he didn't wonder out too much.
The good thing about winter is that most of the animals are hibernating that includes dangerous animals like bears too.
So it's much safer compared to summer time, there's still a few animals that are active during winter but that number is obviously much small then compared to summer time.
That is not saying he should let his guard down as he could still be attack by a pack of wolves or the primitives that lived on this planet.
Saying that he did see a humanoid creature in the far distance in one of the trips to the river.
He saw the creature across the river, unfortunately the figure is far too deep into the other side of the forest and he only saw it for a split second but William is pretty sure that he saw a human like figure walking upright with thick furs and horns.
It's completely different from the short green skin primitives he had encountered before, this one is like a sasquatch only with horns.
William has only explored the distance of a few hours walk of his surrounding area and that's only a small part of the world. So it's quite possible that there actually another human like spices on this world he hasn't encounter before.
Now the possibility of another human like specie beside the green skins is not as rediculous as it seems especially considering Earth's past.
In the earth's past there existed more than 15 types of human species including our own. Yes, quite remarkable isn't it? out of all of the human species only our own emerged victorious as the last one intelligent human species still standing.
There can only be ONE!
A few of them actually exist in the same time, in the same place and actually interacted with each other.
Well... The end result of those interaction is the current day humanity.
Our ancestors slaughtered most of them and 'integrated' the rest. By 'integrate' it most likely means in the form of enslavement as it's quite likely that a few of the early humans has acquired an... Shall we say exotic taste and had taken a few of the strange looking humans as their wives.
Some of their DNA can still be found on us modern humans.
Now don't judge our ancestors actions with modern morality as its quite likely if our ancestors were on the losing end then they would have done the same to us.
There's a strange nonsensical notion going on today of how 'we' are always the bad guys.
What happened to the native Americans? The Europeans were to blame as they would say.
Let's not mention the fact that before the Europeans arrive they were happily warring amongst themselves, when the Europeans arrive they were attacked and European settlements are constantly getting raided by the natives, they also a tradition of scalp hunting.
They were anything but the nice little Indians who live in peace with nature.
Now in Central America we have human sacrifices taking place on a daily basis on top of pyramids. There's also canibalistism taking place through out Central and South America.
Shrunken heads of explorers are also found in South America.
Obviously those explorers wanted to experience the culture firsthand by having their heads shrunken right?
People seems to forget about these little details and only remember Europeans slaughtering natives never the other way around.
Anyway getting sidetracked here so there's another human-like species is on this world and chances are they're anything but friendly.
Peaceful first contact is nothing more then a complete fantasy especially when dealing with a primitive civilization.
History shows that primitive cultures has a tendency for direct aggression, so it's better to not get your hopes up for a peaceful coexistence.
Not that he could communicate with then so it's pretty much inevitable that it'll also end up in war with the Sasquatch people. (for those that still don't get it they're beastmen)
Besides that nothing much happened in the winter.
Not long after that the weather starts to warm up the snow starts to melt and gradually life returns to the forest.
The snow eventually all melts away and now William is stand in front of his farm.
'here we go again' he sighs as he starts the long arduous process of spring plowing again.