Guardian

You lick the inside of the fruit. It's smooth and tastes vaguely sour. You don't get sick within the next five minutes, so you conclude the flesh won't kill you if you eat it, at the very least.

You consider making a fire. This is something you actually kinda know about, because you think fire is pretty cool. You like watching it, all the embers twisting around, each moving independently, but also contributing to the fire as a whole. You had fun following them with your eyes and trying to see if you could push them around with your mind. And you definitely have never deliberately set anything on fire that shouldn't have been, no matter what your chemistry teacher says.

Anyway, starting a fire is actually pretty easy.



You prepare a pile of tinder by tearing sticks and leaves into thin strips, so that they catch easily. You take your piece of metal-



and strike it against a rock, sending a few sparks onto the kindling. You repeat this over and over until smoke starts rising from the pile.



Once it takes, you start blowing into it and feeding it more sticks. It grows slowly, and eventually you no longer need to sustain it.



You sit back, and warm yourself in front of the fire. The wetness and coldness of your clothes remaining from when you were washed up on the shore finally disappears. You finally feel like you can relax, like you no longer have to be doing something.



Its about time you went to sleep anyway, it took you like half an hour just to find a rock that would actually spark.





With a bit of a sigh, you drag yourself away from the fire and begin scooching underneath the log that composes your current home. You're fairly sure the fire won't spread, the wood here isn't dry or anything and the air is humid (you're right next to the sea after all). You can still feel some of the heat in your little nook, which is nice.

After all your running around today, you're tired, and while you know you should probably plan for tomorrow, you fall asleep quickly once your eyes are closed.



What do you dream about?