Tools, Stockpiles, And A Dead Bear

I woke up early in the morning, I could see the sun rising in front of the cave opening and after fully waking up, I immediately began relighting the fire with the left over wood I had found. After stabilizing the fire I began to cut out a portion of the bear's abdomen to cook for breakfast. The meat did not taste the greatest and took a full hour to cook a sizable chunk to fill me up.

After the breakfast I hiked up the cliff again to see if I could spot any nearby lakes or rivers. Upon reaching the top, I could see the forest stretching out in front of me, rolling hills in the distance, and a small clearing with a clear lake about two and a half miles to the left of the cliff. After noting the general direction of the lake I slowly walked towards the edge of the cliff and took short jump off.

As I was dropping down the cliff at an increasing rate I kicked hard of the side propelling me almost a football field in the direction of the lake. With the added momentum landing would be very dangerous so I used time erasure to negate any damage and began to roll to lose speed. After I had lost enough speed and my time erasure ran out I popped up and began to sprint to the lake.

After six minutes I finally reached the lake, at the lake there where a few dear staring at me from the other side. I walked into the water and started to drink my fill, the water was very refreshing. After drinking, I moved to the side of the lake opening into a stream to clean myself.

About 20 minutes later I was walking back to land, I needed some way to hold the water so that I didn't need to come her every morning and night. I walked towards the closest tree and chopped onto a thick enough branch to make a water jug, after cutting it in half with a second chop, I took out my sharp rock to clean up the edges and dig out an area to hold the water.

After digging out handles on the sides and filling the jugs, I began to jog back to my 'home'. On the way back, I killed another rabbit for lunch I knew I would need more wood but I decided to save it for when I returned. After arriving at the cave I leaned the jugs on a wall and began to skin the rabbit. After skinning I cut strips of the rabbit's hide and fastened them around the handles of the jugs to make it easier to carry multiple of them.

I grabbed a nearby flat rock and broke it into a rounded arrow head shape with a curve on the sharpened broad end and 3 notches on it equally spread out along it. I the grabbed a medium piece of wood and split the top of it in half creating a notch big enough for the rock to fit in. Afterwards, I used the remainder of the hide to make a long thin strip and began to tie the rock to the stick making sure it was secure enough to take a large force.

After making my tool, I walked to one of the smaller nearby trees and tested my creation. With one swift horizontal swing I chopped the tree in half. I began repeating this process to many of the other nearby trees with small trunks, after taking a break at noon to have lunch I continued until the sun was low in the sky.

Throughout the day I had made a large stockpile of the wood logs, enough to last me for the next week. After cutting out another chunk from the bear I dragged it about 100 meters away and skinned it, the bear had begun to stink and I did not want it anywhere near the cave. I placed the bear hide outside and had my dinner, about an hour later I put out the fire and went to sleep.

-----?????-----

I am an apprentice fire mage from the nearby village of Kato. My team has been doing a hunting run for the past 5 days through the Katchukian forest. We had just received info from a couple of our scouts that they had seen a dead and skinless bear with 2 medium chunks missing from its body about 3 miles ahead of us.

The smell coming from its body suggested that it had only been dead for a few days, which means the killer might be nearby. The scouts said it looked as if the killer did not have a good cutting tool nor did it have experience, they said the killer most likely killed it with an extremely powerful blow to the top of the skull.

It was close to nightfall so we set up camp, in the morning we will be heading in the direction of the dead bear to find the culprit as it might be in the area, we kept a shift of 2 guards switching every 3 hours.

My team consisted of 14 people, 3 scouts, 6 knights, 4 hunters/bowmen, and I, the mage. Mages are very rare with only a one in thousand chance of appearing with the ability to manipulate one of the four elements: earth, fire, wind, and water. Mages where often times male but within rare cases like me female mages will appear.

After a nights rest and a morning meal we set out towards the dead bear. The bear was about 100 meters from a cliff, we could also see drag marks coming from the cliff and leading to the bear. After getting into formation we followed the tracks to a cave in the side of the cliff.

-----King Crimson-----

As I had not prepared anything for lunch I headed to the lake to refill one of my jugs and make a couple more, before I left however I prepared some hide strips for the new jugs that I would be making. After my preparations I set out at a walk to the lake, at the lake I killed and ate 2 raw fish for breakfast before making and filling 2 more jugs.

I tied the jugs together and began walking back, when I got close to the cave I could hear voices, I stayed as silent as I could as I got as close as I could without getting noticed. I could see a group of 14 people, some with bows, daggers, and quivers, and some with shiny armor and swords, and one with a dark robe around them. The group was searching through the cave I had been living in recently, I did not know what business they had with it but I was not going to let them go through my stuff like its their own.

I assumed the one in the robe was their leader as they where the only one with a robe on. I snuck behind the closest tree to the person, I could not see the face but that did not matter. I used time erasure to sneak behind them, take out both of my tools and pressed my rock into her back and the 'axe' blade into their throat but not hard enough to break through skin.

Once time resumed everyone who was facing this direction looked on in shock, in an instant the robed person was almost dead and they couldn't do anything about it. In a matter of seconds, I was surrounded by everyone in the area.

"Don't move." I told the robed person. "What do you want with me?"

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One second I was observing the progress on the search we where conducting on the cave, the next I had a sharp object poking into my back and a blade pressed against my throat. I heard him tell me not to move, and ask what they wanted with him. I did not dare to use my magic because if I tried to he would surely kill me before I could kill him, all I could do was answer him.

"We found a strange dead bear and we followed the tracks, from it being dragged, back to hear" I said with some difficulty.

"Why are you in this forest to begin with?" The stranger said.

"We where on a hunting run in this forest before we found the bear."

"Where did you come from"

"We came from Kato village, now would you please let me go?" I pleaded, the object against my back was beginning to get uncomfortable.

"You need to promise that neither you or your friends will attack me once I do" He said.

"I promise."

He then let me go and I dashed away and turned around. The person had red skin with a white net-like pattern protruding from his skin, metallic armor like pieces and a second face protruding from his forehead. I did not know what I was seeing as I stared in disbelief at him.

"Take me to this 'Kato' village" he ordered us.