Supporting his back on the stoned ice, his body stood up with some tired difficulty. Untying the rope with the hands that had been imprinted by their thickness to admire how well the fellow savages had figured the length it would need for him to survive this start of his lonely journey.
The bag with the tools he had carried throughout these months was pat to reassure its presence, just as he did with the big axe on his back that stuck to its place without causing its owner trouble. The leather pouch that contained his water, one that those he departed above gathered from what they managed to melt from the boiled pieces of ice, was then opened for his throat to satiate the thirst his exhaustion had not allowed earlier, gasping as he forced himself to stop his craving, for nothing did he know about the place he was to crawl into and precaution he needed for the days to follow.