I rose to screaming.
I could see that others were also jumping up and out of their sleeping positions.
It was Ruffnut, she was kicking her leg, tears streaking down her face.
Last night she had decided not to sleep in the tree, along with Fishlegs, Tuffnut, Hookfang, Astrid, Snotlout, Toothless and Barf.
We (Eret, Hookfang, Tuffnut and I) ran towards her, but I yelled for everyone to get back. It was a snake.
The snake, which I assume was a Python was slowly engulfing her leg. Eret and I cautiously stepped forward and whipped out our knives. I slipped mine between her leg and the snake's mouth (not sure if this works or how) and shoved upwards, piercing a hole in its head and moving my arm horizontally to cut apart the head. It was disgusting, and I will admit that I vomited, but we managed to get the snake off of her leg. Her foot, however, had been partially ingested, and she lost her pinkie toe. I don't understand why her brother and she thought it cool.
Nevertheless, we were all in an obvious hurry to keep moving. We headed south using the compass app on Snotlout's phone, but I think I remembered something about how moss grows on the south side of trees… or was it the north side… east? I don't know, the point is app= good!
Did we find food? Yes, lots and lots of animals, but I advised them to keep the hunting to a bare minimum, we really did not need to attract predators… or scavengers I guess. Growing up in this country you always hear stories of how someone got dragged out of a tent and eaten by a lion or a hyena, never realizing that that may be you someday… unfortunately that's a lesson that we learnt on our second night…
We never did find Meatlug's body… we did however find the lion prints and the blood. She'd gone to the bathroom but ended up straying a little far from camp… I wondered how I was going to tell Thabo his sister was dead…
I didn't rest that night, and in all fairness, I suppose that that was mistake number one in a chain of events that would lead to a very deadly affair.
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whelp, that's done!
-httyd4eva
peace out yo;P