Companion in the Cold
Year 0001, The Imperium
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Today the snowfall was subsiding it is almost spring.
August was out and about the house to stretch himself after his morning dive, he could finally get out of the house although still a bit cold but his fur tunic was enough to warm himself.
Today he spotted that the door on the other house was opened slightly. Panic ran through him, like a bolt of lightning he ran inside the house and armed himself with the bow.
He ran outside aimed his bow and crept slowly until he was near the door. He tapped the door and called for a voice.
" He..llo? is anyone there "
He yanked the bowstring...and stood still at an angle by the doorway. After a while he couldn't hear a sound or response. So its not a beast then, what is it?
Pretty brave of him to step on the unknown right? His mind was wandering everywhere he knew that he locked the door before. But what if he didn't and his mind is already playing tricks on him?
*Ahhhhh " what to do? what to do? "
He calmed himself and steeled his resolve he yanked the bow again as he slowly went inside.
As he opened the door he could see that nothing was amiss. But if you can hear his heart then it would sound and feel as if it was escaping out of him.
He almost couldn't breath and his vision grew dim.
*pant pant pant* With each nervous step he took.
But he soldiered on, he cleared the entrance and went from room to room.
Finally in one of the bedrooms he found a being that wasn't moving.
He was sweating bullets by now even in this cold climate.
After a moment of calming himself down, the being still wasn't moving, he couldn't tell what it was, afraid that it would lash at him.
After giving himself a peptalk " Come on brat! you can do this! we can do this! "
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He rolled his eye as his system promted him, he could tell thosd judgemental cold gaze being thrown ar him.
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He poked at the being with his bow, as he gave himself a bow length of space to work with. Seing that the being was still somewhat unmoving he went a little bit closer to inspect it.
He was overthinking things with a bunch of what ifs. But he still managed to overcome his fears and upon closer inspection this being is a.. girl? It looked like someone his age, he took one of his gloves off and hovered his hand near the girls mouth.
A faint breath...
He knew then that if he wouldn't bring her to his home she will die there and then. And he couldn't take anymore deaths around him or he would go insane from being alone and from seeing someone die again.
He rushed her home like a princess..
He took some wood from his pile and started to fire up his hearth again. He took the girl near the hearth and coverd her with whatever blanket he could find to warm her up.
She now looked like a food wrap from one of Aerths numerous food. Not that he remembered anything about it though.
After a while her complexion of extreme pale and a bit of hypothermia has gone down she was now sweating with red cheeks and ears. He removed some of the blankets from her slowly.
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After several hours of panicking he could finally feel that the girls breathes have somewhat stablized. Then he began too cook a simple meal for both of them a brothy soup that his mother used to cook for him. It was his favorite.
While waiting for the girl to wake up from her slumber. He ponderd how the gal got here and if she was truly alone because that is unbelievably impressive to say that if she did so.
But after a while the brothy soup was now wafting through the entire house. It invaded his nostril and made his stomach churn in hunger as he did not manage to eat the entire day. He was starving now.
He took a bowl for himself when he was about to eat... the gal had woken up from her sleep. Her stomach screaming for that delicious smell.
He was bewildered by this beast like behavior she was exuding. Is this a beast or a person? Nah, I think she's just hungry.
He poked her and she turned to him, he saw her beautiful golden eyes staring at him? No the food.
He gestured at her to take and eat it..
" Heee...reee eaa.ttt this sloww..wwly "
He stuttered at the sight of this beauty, staring at his food.
Gel looked at him in curiousity and after awhile she ate the food that he gave her.
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They were both famished but Gel was a little more starved than him. And they ate this meal silently and it feels like a meal from home. They both felt the peace from the brothy soup he prepared.