RE: Goodbye Silvia
05-07-2017, 11:55 PM
The forest is too far away to reach today. You need to find some shelter before nightfall.
Beneath you, where you just finished gobbling down invertebrates, is a large pack of cold-hard earth. You crouch down and start digging it away with your hands. After about an hour or so, you've created a giant hole and lined the perimeter with boulders. Atop your makeshift cairn you place one large, flat boulder, and lay down in the dark silence of your creation. Some snow is drifting through the holes in the rock structure, but not as much as being out in the open, and the closed-off nature of the space is trapping in your body heat. You will survive the night.
You dream while you sleep, but your sleep is too shallow to remember any, and you definitely don't feel well rested by the time you wake up in the morning. You are colder than ever, and despite your natural thickness you are losing too much heat.
If you wanted to, you could try to make it to the forest today - maybe there's better shelter and more plentiful prey there. You also know that the early morning is when most of the larger beasts of the tundra are active, and you could attempt to track one down.
Beneath you, where you just finished gobbling down invertebrates, is a large pack of cold-hard earth. You crouch down and start digging it away with your hands. After about an hour or so, you've created a giant hole and lined the perimeter with boulders. Atop your makeshift cairn you place one large, flat boulder, and lay down in the dark silence of your creation. Some snow is drifting through the holes in the rock structure, but not as much as being out in the open, and the closed-off nature of the space is trapping in your body heat. You will survive the night.
You dream while you sleep, but your sleep is too shallow to remember any, and you definitely don't feel well rested by the time you wake up in the morning. You are colder than ever, and despite your natural thickness you are losing too much heat.
If you wanted to, you could try to make it to the forest today - maybe there's better shelter and more plentiful prey there. You also know that the early morning is when most of the larger beasts of the tundra are active, and you could attempt to track one down.