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Book Two: Growth - Table of Contents
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Chapter Sixty-Six: Buckeroo
I’m not in the best of positions, leaning back on my hands with a crocodile look-alike half on top of me. It’s heavy but I’ve got the advantage on land. Remembering a nature program ...
2023-07-23 09:17:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixty-Five: Man, I’ve got an Axe
Careful. Caaarefuul, I say to myself as I tip the resin bowl. It’s hot, so I’d rather not spill it on my hand, but I do need to transfer the liquid so I can filter it. Right now, it’...
2023-07-23 09:16:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixty-Four: Tough and Chewy
When I realise the loud noise was just a pot exploding, I grimace. One item bites the dust. Let’s hope for not too many of those. It sure shows how keyed up I am that a noise the equivalent of a ...
2023-07-23 09:16:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixty-Three: Baked Cub
The fire crackles cheerfully as I sit next to it, the tree stump I collected yesterday in front of me, a somewhat sharp flint stone in my hand. Within eyesight, but carefully being kept away from t...
2023-07-23 09:15:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixty-Two: Colony
I step carefully through the leaf litter in front of the gaping hole. My knife and mace are both in my hands and I’m tense, ready for another monster to come leaping out. Casting a glance around,...
2023-07-23 09:13:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixty-One: Nightmare-inducing
Regret isn’t helpful right now so I push it away, using the split-seconds I have before it’s upon me to instead try to figure out how to stay alive. By the time it lunges at me once more, I hav...
2023-07-23 09:13:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixty: The Venom Coursing Through My Veins
The next morning is a bit of a repeat of yesterday. Food, stoke the fire, and then prepare for the day. This time, I’m intending on going out into the forest rather than digging a pit, so my prep...
2023-07-23 09:13:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Nine: Priorities
Despite being on tenterhooks for most of the morning, even after getting back to the cave area, nothing bad happens. Well, nothing outside the normal, that is. In the end I don’t make more soup s...
2023-07-23 09:12:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Eight: Pride
My mind races quickly. We have one cub AWOL – what are the chances that Trouble is where the shriek came from? I wouldn’t take that bet. At the same time, we have two cubs here that we can’t ...
2023-07-23 09:08:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Seven: Trouble
The two felines stare each other down for a long moment. Well, I say two felines, but I’m not even sure a nunda counts as one, let alone a raptorcat. Lathani is significantly bigger than the as-y...
2023-07-23 09:07:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Six: Sympathy
I wake up in the dark to something breathing heavily near me. I freeze while my mind races groggily to work out the cause. The fact that it doesn’t move closer while I wake up fully is enough to ...
2023-07-23 09:07:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Five: Non-human Communication Skills
“Maybe you should stay here with the cubs until I’ve spoken to Kalanthia,” I say a little hesitantly, casting an apprehensive eye up the slope. I mean, I’m pretty sure this isn’t...
2023-07-23 09:06:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Four: Handily-sized Snacks
First, I need to confirm – or deny – my suspicions. As casually as I can, I turn to Bastet and ask her a question, doing my best to control the feelings and images I inadvertently send down the...
2023-07-23 09:06:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Three: Trap
I wipe sweat off my brow, my breath still coming in tired pants. Feeling low in energy, I pull out some cooked meat and munch on it, putting a little of the raw stuff in front of the cubs and offer...
2023-07-23 09:05:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Two: Strange Babies
The cubs are so cute it takes all I have not to just rush over, grab, and snuggle them into my neck while making ridiculous noises that would be better found in an anime than real life. They’re l...
2023-07-23 09:05:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-One: Acceptance
Focusing back on the raptorcat, my distraction having lessened the pressure I was applying, I take a different approach. Honestly, this isn’t all that different from all the other negotiation and...
2023-07-23 09:04:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty: Battle of Wills
Walking through the forest is actually a pleasure. The sun and leaves make a dappled pattern on the layers of last year’s dropped leaves. My Stealth has already levelled up to Beginner four despi...
2023-07-23 09:04:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Nine: Animal Empathy
The next day I continue with digging my pit. After fetching water, of course. Kalanthia disappears into the forest as soon as I get back, leaving Lathani playing by my feet. I tempt her over to my ...
2023-07-23 09:02:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Eight: Nicholas’ World
Regretfully walking away from Lathani, who makes an annoyed sound when I stop petting her, I head past the cave. Sorting out the firewood in my Inventory, I stack the majority of the branches up ne...
2023-07-23 09:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Seven: Time
Looking up at the sky, I try to estimate the time. Having paid close attention to my Energy gain by absorption over the last few days, I’ve concluded that there must be between twenty-seven and t...
2023-07-23 08:50:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Six: This big
As usual, I wake with the sun. Testing a small chunk of my potato-replacement, I look forward to the time when I’m able to eat enough of it to actually make my stomach feel like there’s somethi...
2023-07-23 08:44:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Five: Good Times
In my state of serenity, I start wandering down the hill towards the stream. I look at my surroundings and notice that they are ever so slightly different from before. The world around me has a myr...
2023-07-23 08:44:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Four: Wisdom
The next morning, I skip testing the root Spike found a few days ago. I’ve been taking advantage of the more relatively relaxed days to start the whole testing process – and so far with decent ...
2023-07-23 08:42:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Three: Flailing Master
I stalk carefully through the forest back towards the tree. The shadows are already lengthening, but mid-afternoon here means there’s still plenty of time until night falls. I took over an hour t...
2023-07-23 08:40:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Two: An Exercise in Frustration
Knapping flint is an exercise in frustration, I decide after the fifth time this morning the stone I’m trying to turn into an axe head splits in the wrong place and completely ruins my progress. ...
2023-07-23 08:39:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-One: Nightmare
Eyeing the nasty chimera warily while backing up, I wonder how to kill it. I don’t exactly want to get anywhere near its venomous bits – because you can’t tell me that those fangs ar...
2023-07-23 08:37:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty: Bounds of the Vow
I warned you, Binder, she snarls in my head, her telepathic voice matching the audible sounds she’s still making.
“What?” I choke out, completely confused. Warned me about what...
2023-07-23 08:36:46 +0000 UTC View Post