Day 2
Today I woke up to the most beautiful sunrise I've ever seen. I got up in the pitch black cave with chickens clucking around out of sight, so I figured it would be time for me to go out and explore around.
As soon as I removed the wooden slab and crawled out of my hole, all that awaited me(besides the trees and chickens) was a massive sphere of burning fire slowly rising out of the tree tops. It only seemed to last a few moments, but in that time the entire sky was a massive envelope failing to encase the burning sun in it's vibrant reds and oranges. I'm sure I'll never forget that wonderful sight no matter how long I'm stuck in this forest.
Anyways, I'm getting side tracked. What I really should be writing about is how I spent my day securing a reliable food source and expanding my home In search of water. When I finished my moment with the sun and ate some of my crackers, I began the day.
The first thing I did was go over what I needed to have in order to survive, which, at this point, was obviously more food and water. This lead me to think of the chickens. I don't really know how to butcher animals, nor would I be able to stomach them after knowing what I'd done, but what about their eggs? It seemed like they were carelessly laying eggs all around my cave entrance, so why not trap the chickens near the base and use their eggs as nourishment? And so I did.
I used my spade to nail dry wood together using small stones, and fenced out the area around the large tree my hole was formed under. This served to keep in all the chickens that were unlucky enough to trample around on my land. A few of them got away when I was setting up the fence, but I still managed to trap 5 of them in.
After assuring myself of the fence's sturdiness, I loaded almost all the eggs I could find into my backpack, and took them into the cave near the fire place. However, I still was not done. Although I had secured a steady supply of eggs, I wasn't able to cook them. To fix this I gathered all the stones in the cave and stood them upright surrounding the fireplace. Then I laid the biggest, flattest stone on top of the other stones. This created a sort of "mini stove" where I could place more wood into the opening in the stones if the fire was ever low, and on top of the flat stone I could place food to be cooked.
So now that I had a safe home, a constant fire, and a steady supply of food, All I needed was water. After eating some eggs and crackers, I began to ponder about where all the water could be. The forest was so massive, and the trees were so huge, but for some reason I couldn't find water anywhere. Also it hadn't rained since I woke up on the first day, so I couldn't rely on crafting buckets to catch sky water. There needed to be some way the trees were able to grow so huge and spread so far out, I just needed to figure out how... and that was when it hit me.
If there was never any water on TOP of the surface, then doesn't that mean there would need to be underground springs? It's the only thing that made any sense to me, so I decided on what I should do. Either I could continue to search for nonexistent lakes above ground, or I could dig passages around the cave, looking for hidden springs. I decided to go with the digging.
Using my spade, I made a small hole in one of the stone walls, and began to dig through the dirt. After a few hours of digging around and loading the extra dirt out of the cave, I finally found something. About 2 meters away from the hole in the wall, there was a faint stream of water running through the dirt. It wasn't much, but it was definitely water, and that was what I had been looking for.
At this moment I am laying on my bed after drinking the rest of the canister and eating all the crackers. I really wanted to continue digging into the water source, but that will need to wait for tomorrow. I almost fainted from exhaustion a few times while in the tunnels, and I don't plan on waking up surrounded by dirt with a massive backache. Also pretty soon I will need to find some movable source of light for the tunnels I made. Lately I have been relying purely on my hands, since it's so dark, but that proves to be quite the hindrance since I can't see where I'm going. Good night to myself, and I pray for sweet dreams of that beautiful sunrise.