My days looked the sa again. I trained from the morning till evening while helping Shelly in its training once in a while. We would also hunt so animals. The forest beca a bit more populated, maybe due to the mass deaths the animals experienced and so they breeded more often. That was only my guess but it seed plausible.
The dream I had about many dark figures fighting each other didn't appear again, besides that one night. I knew that I would have to kill people in order to experience that dream again. On the other hand, I was dreaming of a dark figure who trained by itself. I always joined in but limited myself to doing only one cycle and then rest. Sotis I would skip 2 cycles just to be properly rested.
I soon got used to those exercises and noticed improvents, even with all the weight I was carrying. Days passed and soon ca the spring. The ice lted and the grass started to apear around the forest and barren areas, desolate due to the winter. Flowers started to sprout and trees beca alive again, after the winter season. Small animals left their hos in search of food and even bigger animals were getting more active.
We stayed in that shelter for over 3 months. There were ups and downs while we were there. After the human party incident, so animals ca to our shelter. We didn't have any animal guests before and when at served itself on a plate for us, why shouldn't we take it? Soon more beast started appearing in the area of our shelter and things looked critical. I had to tell Shelly to kill any packs of animals nearby so that we don't have a horde of them attacking us.
Because the animals were coming to our doorsteps, we didn't have to go deep into the forest in order to search for them. This saved us so ti but also made things more dangerous. We had to do regular cleanings of the area. That was in order to prevent the animals settling and breed like crazy under our noses.
Fortunately we managed to contain the migration of the animals and things quieted down. There was another event worth ntioning. In the middle of the winter season, the nights beca so cold that even within the shelter you could feel the chill. I decided to build so kind of fireplace out of stones. If we had no fire inside we would potentially freeze to death, even with all that fur we had. I rember that the outer layers of fur used as covers was frozen solid, that was how cold it was during the night.
The fireplace took awhile to build. I needed to get stones and stack them in such a way, that I would be able to make fire inside. At the sa ti I had to do it in such a way that wouldn't burn the whole shelter down. I placed stones on the floor near a wall and built up a tower that reached the ceiling. There was a channel inside the tower, It was for the smoke to travel upwards. I of course needed a hole in the wall in order for the smoke to escape sowhere but that was easy enough and didn't take long.
When the fireplace was finally built, I was stunned myself that it could hold like this without any sort of mortar. I made the fire inside and after an hour of keeping the fire burning well, it beca much more bearable inside our shelter.
As for our training. Shelly managed to train its instincts to a point where I had to use 4 puppets. It wasn't very well skilled with 5 puppets yet but it could manage for a while and then get totally lost. Shelly was also making improvents when it ca to hunting. It could now plan and use different tactics against different opponents.
I later allowed Shelly to hunt by itself, instead of us going together. I made a special strap for Shelly to attach the bag that I found on the woman from the human party. Shelly wasn't very keen about dragging stuff around but it got used to it. Shelly was fully convinced when I said that the bag belongs to it and all the food inside will be its not mine. Shelly liked the idea of owning the bag and of course food that would fit inside it so it had no problems carrying it around later.
When Shelly hunted nearby our shelter, it would notify when the hunt was finished and show the location of its prey. I needed to extract and then cook the at so I still had to waste so ti on that but I was still happy that Shelly beca independent to a point.
As for . I was already adjusted to the weight on my back and it didn't really bother anymore. I even increased the weight on my arms as well as added new weights to my legs. If I were to drop all that stuff down, I would be many tis stronger. I decided not to do it and train my skills with the weight still attached.
Towards the end of the winter season, I started to train my skills instead of body and managed to get back in form with my aim. I also practiced my bow shooting for about an hour each day and managed to get better at it. As they say "Practice makes perfect" and besides learning the bow, I also trained in the Stringed Hidden Weapons. Although I was still on the 1st dagger, I could now better retrieve and throw it compared to the past.
When I trained my skills, I would be dreaming of a dark figure talking away. During the ti I spend on improving my skills, I managed to figure out the aning of another two words that the dark figure spoke. The first word was Ki which could potentially an "Do" or "Does" it could also an both as it could be interchangeable between the pronouns. The other word I thought I figured out was Rei. It could an "Can" as in "I can" or "You can". With this, I had now managed to find so kind of aning for 6 words out of 10 that I decided to translate.
I decided that it would soon be the ti to leave our shelter and move on towards different direction as much as the map allowed while exploring the regions not specified by Nick's map.
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