2 Chapter One Part B

I'm gonna diiiiiieeeeeee...

So hungry! I feel like I should be shivering but I don't even have the energy to do that!

...the rocking motion went away, there was this harsh sound and then nothing.

...that vertical slice in the darkness is no longer showing anything... just what seems to be another texture of black...

I don't wanna leave this slimy pit because if I go towards that crack I might be eaten by something!

But that's irrational! I need to have courage and not go into the night quietly!! I must scream and fight till the very end! Hmph!

...but its scary... No! Hrrrmmmm!! ...owie. I think I twisted something when I was rolling earlier...

But the gap seems bigger? Maybe? Hrrrrmm- OW! ...I think I pulled something out.

Boohoo... I am earnestly trying to save my life but it hurts! Is my fate just to die?!

NEVER! Fight, fight, fight! Hrrmm! ...Hrrrrmmm!! Hrrrrrmmmmmm!!!

Hah, hah... made it! I think?

The gap is all that I can see and I can hear this wooshing sound really close... was that sound what made me so nauseous?

But, but! Either way I can't smell that nasty sour smell that has been clinging to me from the slime as much!! I think I'm gonna cry...

Sweet relief! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Hehe... I feel so weak... I seem to be at the crack/gap/different texture of black now but what am I supposed to do now?

I think there is stuff outside... so it won't be a void? Maybe? But what dangers are there outside? I might just be jumping from the frying pan straight into the fire! ...What's a frying pan?

Anyway! If I leave the smelly embrace of my normal black it might be even worse in the new black...

I feel so tired... but I think that if I go to sleep now I might never wake up...

Ugh... There might be something to eat in the new black?

...the smelly slime didn't taste good at all! It was really bad... it actually seemed kinda watery... did river water mix with the slime? Am I going to get cholera?

I feel as if I was told that eating yourself is a negative return and you'll end up starving anyway...

This stinks! Really bad! Whoever sent me here is the most irresponsible and incompetent nincompoop that ever walked! Who just leaves someone alone to go insane?! Who doesn't even help someone when they are crying and suffering?!

Those, those- dog turds!!

Hah, hah. ...I really hope I'm not the only living being here... even if the others try to eat me. I can stop that from happening! ...I think... I know how to run! ...how do you run?

...I'm gonna diiiiieeeeee!!!!

...Grrr... I want to cry. I really, really want to have a screaming, ugly, conclusive crying fit.

But! I can't eat until I work! ...or something like that.

So! If I get through this crack I can then eat something and stop these hunger pangs!

...I have no idea what the fork I'm doing...

Hrrmmm! Hrrrmmmm!! Hrrrrmmmm- Oouf! ...ow.

...well I'm out and nothing immediately tried to eat me! Yea!

...but it got a lot colder all of a sudden, mostly where the slime is... which is everywhere...

Ugh. When you've acclimated to a nasty smell but it goes away and then you get a sudden whiff... that's nasty.

It hurt falling... I don't think I like it.

The ground under me feels different? It is deeper than before? I'm like digging my fingers down under the surface... its weird but it doesn't hurt and when I stop digging I stop sinking, so it's not quicksand! Yea, I won't die!

...Its seems to have been awhile and nothings eaten me. I managed to bury myself! ...maybe. I covered my body is whatever I am lying on so I don't get so cold but I left my face exposed... mostly because I found out you can't breath when your face is buried.

Hahhh... life's not so bad? I haven't been eaten, I am not so cold, and I got away from that horrible smell! ...But I'm still really hungry... and tired...

A nap might help? I don't think naps are very dignified but they feel really good! ...Will I wake up if I take a nap?

...I think I will... afterall that slime is gone and since I am buried it will be harder to just move me indiscriminately... I think I'll be fine...

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Hmmm... something smells good... zzzz

Wawawawa! ...wow, I can see!

I guess that nap really helped, it got me to open my once stubborn eye lids!

So, the stuff covering me is sand and I know why it's so warm, there seems to be a hot springs bubbling from the cliffside and going towards the river after saturating the sand around it.

Ah, yes. That nasty trip earlier was a boat ride... But the river doesn't look that turbulent? It actually looks pretty clear and calm?

Either way I will be surviving from that river because it seems to have deposited me in a small cul-de-sac bordered almost entirely by cliffs that curve...

That hot springs can help me get clean and warm, that - Wah?

...wow, my black transport was an egg... a really big egg... but it's cracked? ...Oh yea, thats what the light gap was... anyway, once I clean it of that nasty slime and sand it'll be my shelter/boat!

...but aren't eggshells really fragile and composed of thin layers of calcium which are semi-permeable to allow breathing and only the skin layer inside keeps it fairly water tight?

...I broke that skin bareer, didn't I?

...That's fine! I'll just use it like a tent or something to cook a fire in!

...I don't know! But I need to use it somehow! It's this big, looming thing and at least it kept me from dieing! ...I think...

...I probably need to unbury myself. I've only seen about two quaters of my surroundings. The egg has blocked one quarter and I can turn my head three hundred and sixty degrees... that's normal... right?

Hmph, hrrmmm, gah!

Hah, hah... made it.