AUTHOR'S NOTES

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Goddamit, I only have two reviews, and they are from the same awesome person, and every time I reread them I get giddy as f*ck and itchy to keep writing!

Thank you so very much GiggiEba for both your reviews! By-the-by, I am having a case of preparedtohavesomanycharactersthathalfofthemdonthavenames-ititis.

So, would you like for me to use your name- or rather, 'last' name (Eba), for a female character?

Of course, only with your consent.

Anyway, this has already stretched for too long. On with the story!

Hope you guys enjoy! =)

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I was still half asleep, but I just barely managed to catch what she said.

"Ugh.. over... over there... I think... in the corner..."

The girl that was currently holding me by the neck of my shirt let go and ran towards the corner where I had stacked her stuff. She quickly picked up her bow and her knife and fluently slid towards me, lightly pressing her knife against my neck. This made wake up faster than you would believe, so I stood as still as possible.

This kind of situation called for diplomatic solutions.

"Woah, hey, what are you doing?"

She spoke for the second time so far, and I'm sure that her voice would have seemed soft and captivating if it wasn't full of rage and she weren't literally holding a knife to my throat.

"Who gave you permission to take my stuff? And what did you do to my armor?

"I ehhh..." I looked to the side, making sure that it looked as comical as possible, "I might've... kind of... y'know... scrapped it so I could use the leather as bandages for You wounds?" This last bit I stated kind of fast just so I could be done with it.

That, however, only made her furious.

"Say that again, and slowly." I looked into her gorgeous light grey eyes and spoke softly.

"I helped you. And cared for you while you were sick. The armor was in the way, so I salvaged it to use the leather as bandages for your injuries."

The change in confidence kept in the words took her by surprise, probably even more than the change in the words themselves. She reluctantly let me go and watched as I sat up, leaning against the stone wall of the cave

It was still raining heavily outside, so there was really nowhere to go. We just sat there on opposite corners of the cave.

"Why did you help me? You could've just left me to die without looking back."

I smiled and replied "because the mobs were chasing you. I imagined you felt just as scared as I did, so I decided to help."

She looked into my eyes this time, searching for a small inkling of hesitation or proof of a lie.

When she didn't find any she asked something else. "How long was I out?"

"Just about two days. Maybe three."

She looked a bit disheartened by this, but she kept on talking, which was nice. Her voice was melodic and soothing... just like I thought it would be.

"How did you keep me from catching a fever?"

I felt ashamed of this, so I stared at the ground as I talked. "Well, I didn't. I'm pretty sure you got sick by the second morning, so I took out the arrows that were lodged into you. That seemed to fix it, cause you don't look sick anymore."

"Yes, that's true. Skeletons don't get sick unless an open, uncovered wound is still present."

This marveled me, and I decided to ask a few questions of my own. "You're a skeleton? But not like the ones outside? How come?"

The shower of questions seemed to make her fell uncomfortable, so I waited before making any more.

After a while, she answered. "Every thousandth or so monster is born with though, and feeling. Is born human, like the villagers. The rest of the mobs feel threatened and jealous by this, and attack all human mobs on sight. Over the years, more and more human mobs gathered together and made clans based on their attributes and appearances. The skeletons, skilled marksmen, the zombies, healers and plague doctors, the spiders, cunning trappers, the endermen, astounding builders, the creepers, tinkerers and forgers, the slimes, miners and explorers. The nether mobs stay there to guard the nether fortress from any unwelcome intrusion."

I absorbed every detail slowly and asked another question. "So you are a skeleton archer. What were you doing here?"

She looked me straight in the aye and answered curtly. "Hunting And exploring"

Still curious, I pushed my luck as far as it would go. "How far away is your clan?"

"A long ways away. I spent five nights of constant travel and little sleep to get here."

This just confused me further. "What is so important out here that you had to travel nonstop for five days?"

"None of your business." She then turned and leant against the wall facing away from me, effectively stopping the meet-and-greet.

At least she was awake now, so progress had been made. Baby steps, baby steps...

I got myself into a comfortable position on the floor once more and closed my eyes.

"Aren't you afraid that I'll kill you in your sleep?"

I opened one eye towards the speaker. "Should I be? Cause you don't look like the kind of person to just kill other people in their sleep." I closed my eye again and slept, undisturbed and unkilled.

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Skeleton girl's POV

Just like that. He fell asleep. I was stunned at his words and at his carefree attitude.

Now I really wanted to kill him in his sleep.

He was a few inches taller than me, and he didn't look very strong. It surprised me how he had managed to stay alive.

I looked around the rough cave. There wasn't much, not even stalactites or ores, it was just a plain stone cave. Dull and boring. I looked through my pack and discovered that I was down a bottle of water, but I still had all of my beef jerky. Slightly irritated but relieved, I picked up my bow and examined it.

It still had all of its carvings, and there was not a scratch or fingerprint on the wood. Satisfied, I tenderly put it down and got myself comfortable. There was a nagging in my head that made it difficult to sleep.

Those hazel eyes of his, they seemed awfully familiar.

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So far unnamed male's POV

I woke up to the smell of smoke and meat. I groggily lifted my head and found that the skeleton girl was hunched over a small spit and roasting some sort of animal steak.

"Um. Hi. Or, good morning I guess." She didn't respond immediately to this, but after a while she turned to me with a disapproving look.

"You didn't even have a spit or a fire going. How did you make it for so long?"

I smiled lightly. "I kept eating those red things on the trees. They're very juicy."

Now that I think about it, that last statement was kind of stupid.

However, I could tell that her lips tugged upward just a little before coming back down. "You mean apples?"

I blinked. " is'at what they're called?"

"Yes."

"Then yeah, I've been eating nothing but apples for five days straight."

She took one of the steaks from the spit and put it on a wooden board that still had some crushed apple around its edges.

"Here, try it."

I tentatively took a bite of the hot meal, and chewed. Not the best, but as of right now it was pretty darn good. "This is nice. I like it."

This time she visibly smiled, and her cheeks reddened just a little. Like, a single layer of skin changed color by the smallest posible degree.

I searched my pockets and came up with the two chunks of meat I had gathered from a sheep yesterday. Surpriseingly, they still looked and smelled fine.

"Think you could cook these?"

She turned from her task to look at the meat, and her eyes lit up. "Of course I can. Why didn't you tell me you had mutton?" I smiled and responded with a playful tone, "uhh, cause I was asleep? And last night you seemed very busy with the intent to kill me."

I handed her the steaks and she shoved the spit's rod through them. She ate the steak that she was already cooking, and we both waited in anticipation for the meat to roast.

Once it was done, we ate it slowly and with true enjoyment. After our meal, she asked me something.

"I saw a small shelter on top of the hill. Did you build that? By yourself?"

This was a weird question, and I answered a bit confused. "Yeah. Why is that so surprising?"

"Well..." she rolled her eyes toward another direction. "My people are strong warriors, but even we can't build something like that by ourselves. Only endermen and spiders can."

This made me laugh a little. "Are we talking about the same crude shelter up there?"

My laugh seemed to soothe and anger the girl at the same time, so she turned away. I remembered an important detail and asked her another question.

"What's you name, by the way?"

She looked at me from the corner of her eye and sighed. "Sarah. Yours?"

I looked out towards the forest and the sky. And contemplated this. "Not sure... I can't exactly remember... but I think it was something like... Thomas?" I felt that this wasn't quite right, but it served its current purpose.

She looked at we in a weird way. "What do you mean you can't remember? Did your parents not tell you or something?"

"Well, not exactly. I don't think I even have parents. I just woke up in the forest with nothing but the clothes I'm wearing."

"Really? You don't belong to a village or a clan?" She seemed to think this was an impossible feat, which made me smile.

"Really. Like I said, I'm not sure if Thomas even is my name. I just sort of woke up."

"Hmm." This sound was probably an 'oh well' kind of hmm, but it sounded more like an 'interesting' kind of hmm.

I spoke up again. "Did you see the valley? The one directly behind the hill?"

She considered this for a moment. "You mean the one with the forests and the lake?"

"That's the one. I want to go there. Seems like a nice place to settle down, build a bigger and better house."

She 'hmm'ed again and nodded. We stayed like that for a little while. Then, she picked up her stuff and stomped out the fire.

"The sooner we move, the better."

This took me aback a little. "I thought you were on some personal mission? I mean, I'm glad for the company, but I honestly thought that you were gonna leave once the rain had stopped."

She timidly smiled. "It's been too long. I failed, so I have no choice but to stick with you. Come on, time's wasting."

Her words stunned me, and I kept thinking them over as we exited the cave and rounded the hill. It's been too long? So why couldn't she go back to her clan? All of this was confusing. What was her goal?

I kept my mouth shut as we began our trek through the hills and towards the valley.

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MORE AUTHOR'S NOTES

Finally some progress! And mystery! And soon-to-be-written lore!

I need character names, so I'll ask my readers to submit names for: 4 female characters and one male character. I have some names but I still need these five. Plis halp!

Also, school started back up, so it may take longer for me to write chapters, but we have a weekend coming soon, so I'll divert all of my free time to the story. Cuz I like writing.

Also also, this is my second two thousand-ish word chapter! Yay!

Anyway, thank you so much for your time, and good day!

~ LeMafiaKreb