Broud lifted the basket up, imagining throwing it in the river, or setting fire to it outside, well if he had fire that is, but then he realised how heavy it was, and he started to wonder what was in it.

So instead of destroying it, he put it down and opened it.

To reveal strips of leather.

He picked one up and looked at it, realising that it had a slight red tinge to it and was quite stiff.

'What is this?' he wondered, thinking maybe that Ayla had been trying to make slings but couldn't get the leather right. 'Just like a woman,' he gesticulated to himself. 'Useless.'

He threw the strip of leather back into the basket and went toward another basket.

He really hoped there would be food in this one.

There wasn't, but there was something just as good. A fur cape, a little small for him, but it would keep him warm. He put it over his shoulders, breathing in the smell of fur and leather and something else he recognised but couldn't quite place.

And then he found what he was looking for. A basket full of apples, they were a bit soft and wrinkled, but he was hungry so he didn't care, just ate the whole of it, skin, flesh, core, seeds, bruises and even the maggot.

'Maybe I won't get rid of the things in here,' he signed. 'I will look through it all, and keep what I want and throw away the rest.'

His eyes alighted on a bladder. He picked it up, noting it was empty, but had a slight smell to it, and the top of it was slightly yellowed.

'I'll wash it out,' he gestured. 'And then fill it with water.'

Except when he took it to the nearby river, he just threw it in, and shook it a bit, didn't let the fast flowing water enter into it. In fact, he nearly lost it and had to step into the water to stop it floating away.

He'd nearly thrown it in the river properly then, so angry was he with Ayla for making his hide wrapped feet wet.

Stamping back to the cave, he unwrapped his feet, grabbed a sleeping fur he'd found in another basket and then laid down to sleep next to the scorch floor of the cave.

All the while wishing he'd brought fire with him.

Or Oga.