A few minutes after I lit the fire, Rosie ca back.
The sound of her footsteps echoed through the almost silent night. It was a little windier today and the smoke all fluttered into my eyes, causing a slight irritation.
"How did you go?" I asked her.
"I levelled up again, I also collected a lot of different plants."
"That's good, have you unlocked anything new?"
"I got sothing called a [Sanctuary], it's like a little greenhouse I can travel to."
That sounded interesting.
"How do you get there?"
"I don't know, I just decide to go there and then I get transported."
From the sound of it, it appeared to be like so other-worldly pocket dinsion where she can travel to grow plants. Although, I couldn't be too sure of what it was. I guess the systems that people had varied quite a bit.
Although, I can't help but think that sothing's off.
She summoned so things from her inventory.
"I collected so fruit and vegetables for us to eat."
"Ooh, that looks nice."
I opened my crafting nu and looked for so cooking utensils. I didn't have any tal to craft a knife with so the best thing I could make was a stone crockpot. With 20 rocks, I crafted the crockpot and attached it to the makeshift cooking device over the fire.
I didn't really know what to put in it so I put so pieces of at inside and she put so vegetables and water, making so sort of stew. I realised that we also needed bowls and spoons to eat with so I crafted two sets, spending 40 wood.
As the stew cooked, there was quite a nice aroma emanating from it. I would have preferred to have so spices of so sort but that was completely out of reach at the mont.
The two of us sat around the crockpot, watching as my Minions stood on guard around us. The area was getting quite crowded as I now had 17 Minions by my side. My Builder Minion was still hard at work constructing the hut.
As we watched the water vapour evaporate out of the crockpot, I decided to talk to Rosie about her past.
"So how was your life before we were all transported here?" I asked.
"Honestly, it was quite good, I had just gotten my life back in order."
She began telling her story.
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It was a warm sumr day when I, Rosie Moran, first found joy in life.
Before this day, I had just been living life on autopilot. Every day was just, waking up, getting dressed, packing for school, getting on the bus, sitting through monotonous classes, getting back on the bus, going ho, eating dinner, watching tv and sleeping.
There was never any variation and there were never any changes.
On the bus, I would always try to sit by myself, even when the bus was practically full and people were forced to sit next to others, I would plug in my earphones and pull out my phone, looking at my background or opening so random app I had no interest in.
At school, I technically had friends, although they were more like friends-of-purpose than friend-friends. I struggled to constantly keep up with the need to put up a front, to put up a persona, eventually, I completely stopped speaking to anyone.
As I looked down at the classwork the teacher handed out, I thought nothing of it. I would do it later.
Life was boring, there was nothing that interested anymore, nothing that made smile and nothing that made excited.
That was when I t her.
I had seen her walking around the school from ti to ti, always a bundle of energy, a happy-go-lucky girl, I would think.
However, on one fateful night, I managed to get a glance at her at the absolute bottom of her life. Her happy, friendly persona was nothing but a front. Out in the dark alleyway beside a convenience store I frequented, I saw her, kicking the wall and yelling in anger.
I wanted to walk away without interacting with her. However, just as I was walking by, she turned her head and stared straight at .
"Did you see, Rosie..."
"U-um..."
Her face was contorted, it was a face I had never seen her make such a face before. I grabbed my long hair in fear as she stared at with eyes that look as if they could kill.
She took a deep breath.
"You won't tell anyone, right?"
"N-n-no of course not!"
"Okay, well since you've seen what I did, you might as well hear everything."
"Huh?"
"I'll trap you in with more information."
She stood up and grabbed my arm.
"You are now associated with no matter what."
I looked up at her.
"This is our secret."
She pulled further into the alleyway. I was scared for my life, this person who I'd hardly spoken to before, this person who I thought was the nicest person in the school, was now dragging by the arm into the darkness of the abyss.
At that ti I didn't know what was happening.
But I never knew that she would be my first true friend.
Where are you? Mackenzie...
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I almost forgot that everyone here had their own story, their own lives before this catastrophe—or at least that's what I think this is.
"Is the stew almost done?" She asked.
"I honestly have no idea, you want to taste it?"
"Uh... I'm not sure... I guess I'll try one of the vegetables."
She grabbed the spoon and scooped out a piece of what appeared to be celery. After blowing on it to cool it down a little she nibbled on the end and tasted it.
"I don't really know." She finally concluded.
"Oh well, it's been almost two hours, I'm sure it's fine, the entire surrounding area has risen by at least five degrees just from the fire."
"All right, let's eat then."
She scooped the stew into two bowls and the two of us tucked in.
It was nice to have a warm al for the first ti since I ca here.
After finishing our als, I set up the commands for the Minions to look after us during the night. I had quite a large number of Minions at this point so I wasn't as worried about being overrun during the night.
Eventually, I prepared to go to bed.
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