Limits Chapter 7

That night, the sky was clear. I've waited until midnight expecting to experience the boulder/rays of moonlight phenonon again. The nature did not fail to et my expectation. The sa thing happened that night as well. I saw the boulder being illuminated by the rays of moonlight and animals converging into the area again.

I stood up from my shelter and joined the animals in the boulder area. I sat down about 10 tres away from the boulder and then stared at it. This phenonon look incredibly beautiful and the rays of moonlight seed very mysterious. My thoughts started to drift away to so distance place. I was calm for so reason and focused only on that boulder and the rays of moonlight.

Suddenly, I felt like my consciousness was also drifting away. I tried to resist the feeling but after a while I gave up. I felt safe and carefree when I just stared at the rays of moonlight. Then it happened, before I saw a misty figure, it was small and had wings? I was bewildered and could think on of one thing 'a fairy?'. It was dancing happily on the boulder without a care in the world, as if performing for all those animals gathered. I was shocked, shocked so much that I snapped out of this dream like state. When I looked around, the animals were still there staring at the boulder. 'Maybe I'm just tired?' I thought.

I decided to stare at the boulder one more ti. After a while, the sa sensation enveloped my body. My consciousness started to drift away, while a dreamy and hazy figure with wings began to erge. It was that fairy again, dancing on the boulder. I wasn't as much shocked as before and I didn't snap out of that dream this ti. I continued to watch the fairy while forgetting everything else.

I knew nothing about dancing or fairies but when I saw this fairy dancing happily under the moonlight, I was in a state I couldn't describe. I felt carefree, happy and at peace. When I finally woke up, I noticed all the animals going back into the forest and the rays of moonlight that shined onto the boulder? were no more there. I wanted to get up but my body was very heavy. I felt like, I was working hard non stop for couple of days.

When I finally managed to crawl back to my shelter, I feel asleep instantly. I woke up the following day and noticed it was already afternoon. I also felt imnse hunger. I had no at, I had to eat the berries until I was full.

With my stomach full of berries, I thought about last night events. The fairy dancing on a boulder, my thoughts and consciousness drifting away and the whole situation with hunger when I woke up. Even when I was dead tired, I would still wake up in the morning hours, it was weird for to stay asleep for so long. I went to the boulder to examine it again but still found nothing unusual.

Then, I got an idea. 'What if I stand on the boulder before the rays of moonlight shined on it? There would be no animals to stare swords at at that ti. I could just wait for the rays of moonlight to descend and find out what is so special about it' I thought.

With my new plan ford, I decided to try and hunt sothing. I was still a human being, I needed at not just berries. I went deeper into the forest in search for my prey. With my throwing skills improving everyday, it didn't take long to hunt another rabbit. After my dinner, I practiced my throwing skills again, awaiting the night ti to test out my plan.

My accuracy increased day by day. 'Today, during my practice, I was able to hit a tree two out of three tis!' I thought. I noticed that the better accuracy I wanted to achieve, the harder and longer it took to get there. 'I guess no one becos a master after a day or two' I thought.

When the night ca, I executed my plan and climbed on top of the boulder. I sat down and awaited the moonlight. As expected, it appeared at pretty much the sa ti it did the day before. Although I was happy that it worked, when the rays of moonlight shined onto my body, I felt as if I was dying. The feeling I had was no longer pleasant, carefree or happy, no. It felt as if I was awaiting slaughter, taking my last breaths of life.

I tried to move, to get away from the boulder but my body was incredibly heavy. I was barely keeping myself conscious. The pain intensified, few seconds felt like eternity when finally, I fainted.

I woke up the next day or rather, I assud it was the next day. This ti it was morning. When I woke up, I was happy at the thought that I'm still alive! I was alive but very weak at the sa ti. When I tried to prop myself up, I noticed my hand was really shrivelled. I got startled by that discovery and check my arm, then another arm, then both legs and finally I touched my face.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS!"

I scread at the top of my lungs. I was shrivelled and dry like a skeleton. I looked like a dried corpse waking up from its long slumber. I was terrified at myself. 'What type of thing happened to ? Did this ray of moonlight suck away my life? Will I stay like this forever?' I asked myself. There were more questions popping into my mind every second. I was scared, confused and maybe a bit angry.

It took a while for to finally calm down. I first tried to get off from the boulder. When I moved everything hurt, as if I was worked to the bones and then put into a long slumber. My desire to eat sothing beca starvation, not hunger. 'I can even eat grass at that point, anything edible!' I thought.

When I finally managed to get myself off the boulder, I furiously looked for berries. I knew grass was not ideal type of food for , it could do more harm than good. Berries were the easiest food to find in the forest, it didn't take long to find so.

I started eating. I ate, then ate more, then more and more until I ate about two buckets worth of berries. I was surprised myself, how was it possible to eat two buckets of food, of berries nontheless? Sohow, I managed that and the starvation beca a hunger. This was much more bearable then the feeling of starvation. I could still feel pain all over my body but it was nothing compared to before.

When I laid down on the grass, I tried to organise my thoughts. 'The idea of standing on that boulder while waiting for the moonlight was stupid. I need to leave this place. This place is cursed!' I thought. I no longer had any interest with that boulder or those rays of moonlight.

I've rested for an hour or two and felt the hunger becoming more intense again. I ate more berries then rested again. After another round of eating and resting, I managed to recover enough strength to move normally. I was still too tired to run but it was improvent nevertheless. I noticed that the shrivelled skin started to co back to normal, I was happy about that. If I were to enter a village with that kind of look, people would either attack or scream "Kyaaa! It's a walking corpse!".

I prepared to stay one more night at that place to rest properly. This ti though, I would just go to sleep and never go near the boulder and that moonlight again.