Chapter 24: Eating

"I will go and get you a bowl."

Myuri thus left, leaving Alexander sitting alone near the fire. With nothing to do, Alexander looked at the Flickering flame and thought.

'The people of this tribe aren't tree huggers too it seems.'

As from what he has herd from Myuri, the people of this tribe seem do somewhat worship the tree of life. Yes, that very same tree that Alexander is apparently the envoy of.

So Alexander expected them to have some sort of aversion to fire. Since the fire could potentially burn it down. But then he looked round.

"I guess they do have an aversion of fire."

The area surrounding the fire was completely lined with stones and dirt. Not a single flammable thing in a tree meter radius could be seen other than the branches uses by below the flickering flame. Even the branches prepared to be use layee were put outaise the stone circle's radius.

So it seems like these tribeswomen are afraid of fire, it was just that this fear does not control them, it just made them more cautious with it.

Alexander then grabbed the spoon still put in the pot. Of course he wasn't really interested in getting a taste before Myuri returned... well he was interested, he wad just not going to. What he wanted to do was test something.

Tid!

As he hit the spoon on the pot, the familiar metallic sound sound rang. When he first saw It, Alexander has been curious about this pot. Was it truly made or metal? After all, from what he has seen of the tribe, they were from an ancient era. Things like pots and metalic constructs shouldn't even exist. Not yet anyway.

What should be around would be stone products instead. So Alexander wondered where this product came from. Could it be that there was another tribe much more advanced than this tribe?

"Not unlikely, but..."

"Chief!"

Alexander was startled by Myuri's shout from behind him. Turning around he saw the angered Myuri looking at him.

"I told you to wait for me to get you a bowl."

"No... I wasn't..."

"Zuri, you are no longer a child. so you have to start behaving like an adult."

"But I really wasn't."

"Then what were you doing with the spoon?"

"I... Okay i'm sorry."

Left with nothing to say, Alexander could Only apologise. It was not like he could tell her he wanted to see whether the pot was made of metal. So to ends it there, he just gave in.

With that said, Myuri sat down and scooped up a few spoons of soup for Alexander. For a moment, alexadwer's gaze fixated on the wooden bowl Myuri was serving him food on. It was semi-circular bowl that seemed like it was not crafted.

After he had asked, Myuri told him that the bowl was truly as he had thought. It was not made by any tribsment specifically, but was a product from a large coconut like fruit. After the insides are hollowed out, the shell would be left over to dry out. Leaving a perfect bowl to eat in.

Once the soup was poured over to his bowl, Myuri handed him the hot bowl of soup. After a taste, Alexander felt like he has tasted what was likely the tastiest meal in his life. He was no food critic but he would give a 10 out of 10 if he was.

In the end, Alexander finished all the soup. But he was not really satisfied. So he asked for a little more.

"I'm sorry my Chief, but that i can't give you more. I and Azuri have yet to eat any. And although the dark season has ended, most of the trees are yet to bloom."

"Dark season? what's that?"

This was not the first time Alexander has heard of the term. Last night during the meeting, Myuri has mentioned the same term. He was curious about It, but he got sidetracked after mandatory seeding was mentioned. But this time he wanted to know.

"Do you still remember of the seasons chief?"

"Uh not much..."

It was not hard to remember, spring, summer, autumn and winter. These are things he used to learn in kindergarten back on earth. But this isn't earth so...

"Well, Season are the basically the representation of how the trees or the sky is at which time of the year. So there are four seasons in total. There is first the blooming season, the light season, the clouding season and lastly the dark season.

The light season and dark season are the major seasons, while the clouding and blooming are minor seasons between each season crossing between major seasons.

In the light season, it is sunny and light. The trees bare fruit in this season. The clouding season is as said, clouds gather up in this season. And sometimes, there is rain as well. The dark season is the season of darkness, trees will no longer bare fruit in this season and it is really hard to survive. There is a food shortage and wars tend to happen over hunting territories.

The blooming season on the other hand is opening season to the light season. The clouds will open up and the trees will bare fruit. We are currently in the blooming season."

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