AUTHOR'S NOTES

Alright, third entry. I think it's been going pretty well for the most part. Hope you enjoy.

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I was awoken by a very normal, and natural thing.

Hunger.

It just wouldn't leave me alone, so I decided to act upon it.

I stood up, sore from sleeping on the cold stone floor and walked outside. The sky was blue again, and all that was left of last night's chase was bones, flesh and potatoes, plus the occasional arrow and broken bow.

I decided to pick everything up seeing as some was probably useful, especially the potatoes. I wandered around the shore for a bit before finding what I was looking for.

A tree full of red globes. Unfortunately, it was on the other side of the river, so I was going to have to jump it again. Twice, actually.

I took a couple of steps back and ran at full speed towards the river. At the very edge I took a leap, crossing the distance easy, and landing on the other side. However, once there, I slipped on a small rock, and fell flat on my belly.

I stood up, as red in the face as the tasty fruits, and dusted myself off. I walked towards the tree and examined it.

I was just about too short to reach the tree's branches, so I had to find a way to 'get taller'.

I rummaged through my pockets until I came up with the largest bone I had found.

I pulled it out and held it up, using it to whack the red things out.

Whack* one

whack* two

whack* five

wha-* the bone cracked in half with a resonating crunch.

I stared at the broken bone, a little disappointed but still happy to have gotten some of them.

Now all I had to do was jump the river again. This time, though, I did it successfully.

I walked and climbed back to the cave, realizing that atop the hill was another tree full of the red balls. I felt pretty stupid.

Once inside, I started gobbling down three of the delicacies, leaving two for later. Then I remember something important.

I walked over to the deep end of the cave an lent against the wall, staring at the corner.

The girl from last night was still there, still sleeping, and still had lots of injuries. I looked at the opposite corner, seeing all of her gear neatly piled up.

I started rummaging through it, trying to find anything useful to her current predicament. All She had was dyed leather armor, a bow, an empty quiver, a large knife, and some bone meal. She also had dried meat and bottled water inside a little thigh-pack.

I looked back at the resting girl. She was seriously wounded, with bites and cuts everywhere, as well as three broken arrows on her body. One on her right shoulder, one on her left forearm and one on her right calf. The sheer amount of wounds made me wince.

She needed some sort of medical treatment, like bandages, but I didn't have anything that could help her. Then I turned to her stuff and had an idea.

I made an excecutive decision and scrapped her helmet in strips, so as to use the leather as crude bandages. I was considering tearing up her chest plate as well, but her leggings were in worse shape, so I chose to scrap that instead.

I had a total of 6 short bandages and 12 long bandages. I decided that i would wait for her to wake up before removing the arrows, but the minor scrapes and cuts I could treat.

I walked back down to the river and soaked 3 of the short scraps in the water. Then I climbed back up, and started cleaning the wounds. Her shirt had blood on it, and i was hesitant to check under it for any damage, so I left it for last.

Once all visible wounds were treated, i bandaged up the biggest with the long bandages, leaving three for the arrows. The other three short bandages I used for drying and cleaning the rest of her fair, pale skin.

Then came the time to check under her shirt.

I still found the thought off putting, as I didn't want her to wake up to me taking her shirt off. Nevertheless, I put the shame aside and lifted her shirt up to just before her chest. Her stomach was mostly ok, except for a couple more cuts and grazes. I cleaned those up and put her shirt back properly.

Once I was done, I dumped the dirty rags in the corner with her things and waited to see if she would wake up.

I spent a lot of time waiting, so much that no position was comfortable anymore, so I stood up and decided to check if there was anything useful I could do in the meantime.

Once the fresh air hit me, I got a lot of ideas, and i knew which one to start with. I climbed my way to the top of the hill to explore the area. From up here, everything looked very peaceful.

There was actually a lot of space up here, with only a few trees and large stones. I felt satisfied with this, so I walked back down, to the river's edge. I took out one of the small pieces of bark I had on me and crudely tilled the earth near the shore.

This had two reasons behind it, one: i could plant the potatoes I found, and two: the water was close enough that the potatoes would get watered constantly.

When I was done with that, I walked around the hill to see what was behind it.

I was not disappointed in the least.

A beautiful valley spread before me, and I seriously started to question my sight, because, how did I not see this from up top?

There was plains in the center, forests around the edges, stone cliff that arose form the right, and I could just about spot a lake at the farthest end.

Absolutely magnificent.

Impressed and satisfied, I climbed back into the cave to find the girl still sleeping, but a little better now. All of this added up to make me feel very happy. I left yet again on a different quest. The trees on the other side of the river had very little branches, and they were very high up, so there was no sticks on the floor.

But over here, the trees were different, shorter and with more branches. I got myself to the top of the cliff again and picked up as many sticks as I could carry. Then I brought everything into the cave.

I had 7 sticks, all very similar to each other. I pulled one of the flat stones from the day before out of my pockets, and chose a stick. It was the shortest and lightest of them.

I 'borrowed' the girls knife and made a cut through the stick. Then i shoved the stone inside of it. I also picked up one of the dirty leather rags and used it to tie the whole thing together.

Tadaa! I had made myself a very odd and flimsy-looking axe. Proud with my achievement, I walked outside and towards the trees atop the hill.

Once up there, I prepared myself next to a tree. I lifted the axe and swung with all of my might.

chunk!*

And again...

chunk!*

And then I took a step back to admire my work. The cut went all the way to the middle of the tree, and the axe still looked pretty solid. I took two more swings at it and then the whole thing snapped.

With a thunderous crack, the tree came down to earth, breaking apart into three logs.

The force of the tree hitting the ground spooked me, and I ran into the cave to check on the girl.

Thankfully, neither the girl or the cave seemed to have suffered any damage.

I went back up and started hacking at one of the logs, breaking it apart into smaller logs and then into crude planks.

Apparently, everything I made looked crude.

I brought the twelve planks into the cave before I went back up to make more. Once the planks were all nicely stacked and the tree's branches were stripped and piled up, I sat down beside the sleeping girl to rest.

I ate both of the delicious red things that remained, then closed my eyes, and fell asleep.

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I actually like were this is going. If anyone thinks the same or thinks that something should be changed, leave a review to let me know.

Thank you for your time, and good day.

~ LeMafiaKreb.