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Chapter 3 – Denizens of the Forest

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  muffled sounds of chirping are heard by Lumian as he gradually es to wake from a slightly restless nights sleep. Stretg from being as curled as he be by the put out fire his stomach lets out a groan in protest to get him to aowledge that he hasen anything in a day.

  Grooowl

  It seems that I must hunt some food in the forest before I'm forced to eat the foods that have a long shelf life, also I will definitely o find a water source to ehat I do not dehydrate from thirst either. Silently analysing the situation to himself, Lumian scatters the makeshift camp fire to remove traces of him being there.

  Ensuring that he has everything ready, he leaves the building and started heading into the South of the forest where the successor trials are said to be. The forest had tall, long oak-like trees that hid the forest floors uheir opy allowing the seepage of little sunlight to burst through whilst moss and uifiable pnt life emerged every now and again on the forests ground. The vast majority of the forest appeared bleak and g of vibrancy close to the edge of the ruiown having an eerie, silent atmosphere causing the fine hairs on Lumian to spike up raising his nerves as he entered.

  Walking through the forest, the brushing of pnts and grass against his sandals were the only sounds that he could make out before reag further into the forest as the vibrand greenery slowly built with a less thrilling air permeating leading Lumian to slowly decrease his cautiousness.

  Tiinkle...Swoosh

  The further he walked in his ears picked up some sounds in the distance where it started as a trig sound, came as a swooshing and spshing sound in which he realised that this is the sound of perhaps a running stream or even perhaps a river. Pig up a swift pace, Lumian reached what looked to be the edge of a rge rushing river where the water was nearly crystal clear where the pebbles and sediment be seen at its bottom.

  Spsh

  Whilst looking into the river some spshes were being made by what looked to be a native looking series of sparkling silver and e fish bobbing their heads in and out of the water before streaming speedily down the river. Looks like I found the necessary site for resources. Lumian thought to himself while sighing a breath of relief.

  Reag into the bag he picks up the metal teen and some rope before turning to a sturdy looking branapping it off the nearby tree after which taking the hunting k the sheath and tying it to the branch with rope. Ensuring that it is secure he then heads close to the bank of the river looking at the fish before suddenly thrusting the makeshift spear forwards into water pierg into the flesh of the fish.

  Shunk

  Repeating the motion several time Lumian makes out with a handful of fish that he use to defeat his current hunger pangs. Snapping of the heads of the fish befutting them of unnecessary innards, Lumian then sliced the fish using the small dagger like knife before allowing the fish to be deboned and and stu several small brao be hung over the fire.

  After creating a makeshift fire and hanging the fish over the searing fmes, Lumia back to the river to pce a metal teen into the water. Taking a refreshing swig that cooled the slight dehydration from exerting himself he filled the teen to the brim before pce the lid onto it, stuffing it bato his bag for when he . Heading back to the fire, he checks the fish ensuring that it was cooked through before pig up the stid tearing a bite out of it.

  The texture of the fish came apart in fkes as the fish melted into his taste buds creating a slightly muffled moan to escape his lips before starting to wolf down his meal to escape the undeniable hunger pangs. After taking a brief rest Lumias off by following the river stream as apa background sounds bringing a slight smile to his face. At least I do not have to head into work anymore that's some silver lining for ya. Allowing for an amused giggle to brush his lips, yet the girly sound brought him back to reality as it still sounds slightly discordant to his ears not being used to sounding like a girl. "I still don't know how to feel about this." Lumian furrowed his brows as he said this before sighing softly.

  Some time passed before the sun started to set leading Lumian to find a fortable pce to set up for sleeping while having the rest of the fish from earlier in the day. Not finding a good pce to rest he ground, Lumian looked to the trees in order to find a rge and strong enough branch to lie on in order to sleep by dusk. All in all, the spot was unfortable but there was nothing that he could do about it other than sug it up and dealing with it.

  given a little time Lumian mao drift off despite the unfortable position, his chest rising and falling softly in a rhythmic breathing in and out in the fresh air. However, at some point during the middle of the night Lumian was tossing and turning, frowning in disfort, muttering underh his breath.

  A malicious girly voice was heard in his dreams turning something that was sidered sweet into a slight nightmare.

  Look at you, why do you try so hard.

  Admit it, you were never really fortable around your work friends, pretending to be someone your not.

  "No."

  Even your family knows nothing about what you really think, bottling up all your desires and thoughts.

  "Nonono."

  Looking in the mirror disgusts you, looking at yourself caused you to look at faults in yourself. Yet, when looking at your new body you didn't feel all that disgusted despite the initial panic, admit it!

  "Your wrong!"

  Startled into a panic, Lumian abruptly jumped out of the dream with the words 'admit it' ringing in his ears. A breeze causes the sensation of sweat to be felt on his fad back whilst he was breathing heavily before calming down. Looking into the sky to see it was still dark out, Lumian decided it was best to try a more sleep before waking up just in case. Hopefully that wont happen again.

  The m brought rays of dawn to reach Lumian befradually waking up to get ready and move out.

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