"Light, what happened?" asked Night with a hint of worry in her voice. She was surprised to see Edward act in such a surprising manner.
"Night, your underwear....."
Excited, Edward was about to blurt out everything before immediately closing his mouth, remembering what he was just about to say. After all, this kind of thing can't be said in front of others. The people around him might be okay but Edward carried the shame and manners of his world.
"I have a way to soften this fox skin. When I come back from the lake, I will do it!"
"Light..... Leader, underwear?"
Daisy's eyes were bright with curiosity as she leaned towards Edward from his left side and hugged his arm. Night, sitting on the right side smirked as she understood Daisy's action but also because she eventually understood what Edward meant by underwear. It was something he had mentioned before but she herself wasn't sure about the details.
For her as long as it was something Edward would make, it would always turn out to be a wonder of enlightenment.
"Daisy, you will know when it's time. I'll let you try them out first and I can bet you'll love them!" Edward replied while scratching his cheek.
"Hey, your task tomorrow is to continue to take people to the woods, understood?" Edward spoke, turning towards Debro who had just returned in an attempt to change the topic.
Debro had just come back after relieving himself. He was rubbing his urine stained hand against his leather skirt around his waist when he heard Light's command and so he hurriedly nodded.
Edward internally cringed at the scene but calmed himself with the thought that he had eaten much worse since he got here. Hygiene for the moment was out the window.
"Roc I will make a place for everyone to relieve themselves tomorrow. I want everyone to go there to pee and not anywhere else. I want someone to collect the gathered urine. Understood?"
Of course, this kind of measure had many benefits. It not only solves the immediate health problems, but the most important thing was that human waste had many other uses and was easy to acquire.
Edward suddenly remembered that he had seen books on this topic. In the past, for people to acquire nitrate, they would scrape a white powder on soils that had human waste during rural times. It would create nitrate or what he believed would happen. Edward wasn't too sure himself about everything but he was nonetheless excited as it was something extremely important.
He had the chance to make gunpowder!
Edward knew he was dreaming by this moment but still, it excited him. Gunpowder might be impossible for him to make but he could at least try.
*****
The next morning, Edward collected some dry yellow mud and directed some people to carry stones to relatively flat ground. The area chosen was just in the middle between the new cave of the Flying Eagle Tribe and Night's previous tribe cave.
A T-shaped wall was built up. The reason why it was built into this shape was that men and women were separated, and the wall was covered with a thick layer of yellow clay. Something redundant for people of this world, separating based on gender but it was simply Edward's old world habit.
Meanwhile, three water bags had also been made by the lady introduced to Edward by Night. Edward tested them out but the result left him frowning.
'Similar to what I estimated they are leaking. However, this is not a big problem. I remember that when I went to deer hunting, I noticed that there were huge pine trees everywhere in the forest. Now I just have to let some people collect some resin and apply them to the holes to solve the sealing problem.'
Everything was ready. Roc brought with him six men whom he deemed fit for the journey. Each carried a clay pot while Roc carried his leather quiver filled with arrows.
"Light, I want to follow you....."
Last night, Edward had rejected Night and Daisy from following Edward in this endeavor.
To be honest, since his crossing he and the two girls have been in the same place and they were not willing to leave him. However, although this distance was only 100 kilometers Edward knew that it would be full of dangerous animals.
"Night, Daisy how can I be willing to leave you behind? If I could, I would want you to stay by my side but for now, I can't. Wait patiently and I will be back in a few days. The way is dangerous and I want you both to carry out the tasks I've assigned to the tribe when I am gone. Just wait till I bring back salt and then I'll let you both have tasty roasted meat."
Edward comforted them with a smile, but in fact, his heart ached.