After a long amount of walking through the forest, we eventually reached a tall hill, with a cave going deep into it. The man walked ahead of me, and into it. "Hmm... this should do. Okay, you should block off the mouth of the cave with the rest of your wood" I nodded. "Alright, I guess" I said as I started placing the wood along front of the cave. I eventually made a barrier completely separating us from the outside. The man wiped some of the gel from the slime I killed on a stick, and lit it by scraping it against the cave wall. He stuck it in a nook in the wall, and sat down. "Get comfy, we're nor moving 'till morning." I sat down against the wooden wall, and looked at him. "So... can you tell me what's going on now?"
He looked away from me, and took a deep breath. "As I said before, this is terraria. A world of evil, magic, and monsters." He looked back to me "Sometimes, people just end up here. I don't know why, or how." I continued to stare at him, confused. "So wait, this is some dangerous world where people just kind of appear for no reason?" He nodded. "So... why are you helping me?" I asked him. "I've been here a long time. I've seen tons of people who get here end up getting themselves killed. So I've decided to make it my duty to guide those who arrive" "huh... so, do you know how to get out of here?" I asked him, and attempted to look through a crack in the wood "Unfortunately, no. I've tried for a long time, and explored the farthest reaches of this place, but nothing I've found seems like a way out" I sat back down looked to the ground. "Oh..." I muttered, disappointed. "See, this place is a huge continent bordered by ocean," he continued. "I've tried to swim out, or make a boat, but it's to no avail. There are too many sharks, and huge jellyfish" I slumped down, and sighed. We both sat in silence for a while.
Some time passed, and he spoke up. "You must be tired. Why don't you get some sleep, and I'll keep watch" he said as he pulled a long, thin blue sword out of his bag. I look at him, then his sword. "Uh... yeah, sure. Thanks" I still wasn't quite sure if I could trust this guy, but I definitely could use some sleep. I stood up and walked to the back of the cave, before laying down. The ground was soft and grassy, but I still found it hard to sleep. Especially with that guy holding such a sharp looking sword. "So... what's your name, anyway?" I asked him. He then looked over at me. "Jeff" he said simply, before turning back to face the wall. I closed my eyes and said, "I'm rena" I said quietly before dozing off to sleep.
I woke up the next morning to Jeff's voice. "Rena... Hey, Rena, it's morning" he said. I opened my eyes to see him smiling down at me. I closed my eyes again. "Give me like, five more minutes..." I said drowsily. He chuckled, and took me by the arm and pulled me to my feet. "Come on, we've got stuff to do" I sighed and brushed myself off. "Alright, alright." I said. He gestured to the wooden wall I had placed the night before. "Now, why don't you use that axe of mine to take down the wall?" I took the axe in my hand and walked up to the wall. I swung at it lightly, still too tired to try very hard. A small ding was visible in the wood, but it would take hours at that rate. "Okay, fine, give me the axe" he said as he took it from me before I could respond. He quickly chopped a hole in the wall big enough for us to walk through. "Lets go" he said as he went through. "How could someone be so energetic so early" I said quietly to myself and walked out.
When I left the cave, the sun was barely over the horizon. "Dude, it's like six in the morning... can't I rest a little longer?" I asked, following him through the forest. He shook his head. "Nope. If you want to survive you've got to start early." We walked a bit longer, and we came to another cave. This one looked like it went deep into the ground. "Here, take this" he said as he handed me a pickaxe with the same color of the blade of the axe. He lit another gel covered stick, and started to walk into the cave. "Wait, isn't that dangerous?" I said as I followed him in. "Don't worry about it. We have swords, remember?" I sighed. I still wasn't sure if this place was as dangerous as he made it up to be, but I didn't have many options other then trusting him. We kept walking, his torch lighting the way. Eventually, we came to a patch of shiny orange stone in the dirt. "Okay, this is copper. It's what that pick is made of. Go ahead, try to mine some"
"What?" I asked him. I wasn't all to surprised though, I did already chop down a tree, and build an entire wall. "Go ahead. Just hit it with your pick, try and get a chunk out" he said as he leaned back against the side of the cave. I held the pickaxe high above my head, and smashed it against the copper, making a little crack. I did it again, and again, until finally a chunk popped out. I picked it up, and looked over at him. "Keep going. You can't make anything with one copper ore" he said. "Right. Okay" I started to pick at it again, until I had mined out the entire chunk of copper. I had about fifteen chunks of it, and I felt pretty proud of myself. "I did it" I said with a smile "Now what?" He pointed into the cave "now, we keep going" he said with a smile, and stuck his torch in the wall before lighting a new one. Feeling confident, we both continued into the dark cave.