3 Discovery (1)

The sunlight shines into my eyes as I lay on one of the branches of the tree. I felt tired, weak and most importantly my hopes have been shattered.

"My parents said that the forest is rich in food but I didn't find anything."

I feel like I just became a salted fish laying under the sun becoming the best salted human fish

(._.)

I get up and try to climb to the top of the tree. Who knows, I might find something interesting up there. Even if there is nothing I will be able to scout the area. I started climbing the tree upward slowly but surely by using the thick branches coming out of the tree.

A moment later I finally reach the top. I sit on the highest and thickest branches I could find. I stare out into the horizon and I could only see a sea of forest. Bright sunlight shines through the whole forest marking today as a bright clear weather. Green leaves are seen throughout and there is not a spec of yellow and brown or black. A vast contrast from the destruction behind me. This information has given me an idea. If I am correct than the season I am currently in is either spring or summer. At least I don't have to deal with the cold. Now that I think about it due to the vast amount of trees in this area, it has the perfect and right temperature of not too hot or cold. It's clear and clean unlike my polluted world back before.

I stare at the horizon and there is this mysterious feeling in my heart. I feel empty. I feel like there is nothing inside. There exist an empty void. It's missing something important, I can still remember most of the memories from the other world. It is lacking a certain special ingredient. I continue to stare at the horizon in silence. I was only joking around to calm myself down but once I sit down, I now start to feel the suppress emotion bursting. I feel really lost, unsure of what to do next. Whenever I start to think of the times before, my heart would tighten and my eyes would start tearing a bit.

Missing a fragment of what makes me whole.

Is akin to gluing a broken bowl

Back towards what it role

Was before.

I sigh and gaze at the distant for several minutes until I decided to start descending my way back down. The bottom of the forest does have its own beauty. Bushes and portion of grass littered the ground. A layer of dirt mix with dead leaves left a natural atmosphere. The air is fresh and earthly.

I pick up a random dead branch from the ground and use it as a walking cane. I walk five steps forward and I tripped on something. I check back to see what it is and it is a mound of uneven shape dirt, leaves and broken branches. Now that I have seen it, it is quite a strange combination it is strange but how did I manage to trips on it. I use my improvise walking stick and poke the mound. Nothing seems to happen and it stays still as a rock.

"Must have been bad luck of som-"

As I said that I was interrupted by the movement of the mound. It starts to move and suddenly a hand is coming out of it. The speed of it rising was slow, to say the least, to say it is struggling to do that is a good prediction. The hand reaching out is dark green in color along with the fact that it is quite big. Not the size of a troll but I can see muscles on it and it definitely a lot bigger than my hands.

I am faced with a dilemma. I am in a foreign world and this potentially might be an enemy that can endanger my life but on the other hand if it friendly I could ask the direction of the nearest civilization and hopefully find food. Should I risk it? Yes or No. I am not a very straightforward person as I am quite conflicted. I might even call myself a hypocrite sometimes and not sticking to one method of thinking. I will try to help others to the best of my ability but if it takes too much time and effort or if it is for a stranger than I would consider that as a bad deal but then again every person I help will be able help me someway in the future directly or indirectly. Good people will make more good people. I also quite rarely look at a person's value they have in the future too. I am greedy and selfish yet I can be empathetic and caring. This is strange why is my thoughts in such a flux. I shake this off due to my personality being indecisive.

I try to play it safe and poke the green hand with my stick. It twitches and I proceed to poke at it again. It twitches. Curiosity got the better of me and I proceed to poke it with a stick. I don't know why I am doing this but it kinda fun to see the hands being annoyed. I might regret this sooner or later as it could be a deciding factor for my life or death. As I entertain this thought I stop to consider for a moment. By this point I will not be able to find civilization in such a huge forest plus I don't have any tools to make fire nor do I have the ability to forage for my own edible food. In 100 plants 98 are at least poison to us. The other 2 are edible but I am not gambling. This might be the wrong statistic but I rather be safe than sorry. Better be hungry than poison. Don't even get me started on where to find water. I live in the city not the wilderness.

Running out of option I shouted

"Hey, big guy do you need help?"