WILLOCK 27

Father always said, "The wilderness is the darkest place in the world, for it teaches you nothing but pain." It sharpens you, just like a pencil wilt for usage. It sharpens you to be more open-minded, harder, more accepting, and above all, more resilient. "The wilderness," a beautiful word aligned with the perfections of alphabets and vowels, precisely some word.

Days had turned into months, or perhaps weeks or however many there were. We crossed plains, we killed, we ran, we hid... we survived. This was the most dangerous of all my adventures. All our coins were finished, and starvation had set in. I was tattered, and we had traveled over the seas of Antarctica. I wanted to see a man, and the only way to make it easier was to enter the place by sea – the only way no one would look for me.