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Chapter 2 - First life and death situation

"Huh what happened yesterday? How could I end in forest? Wait! Something is not right! Why have I never seen such a bueatiful forest even on pictures? And what's wrong with plants here?"

After thinking for a while Philip found out that this place looks different from any forest he knew about. Grass didn't changed much, only color was more dark than normal, but that was only normal thing here! The skin he was laying on was big enough to let whole family of three sleep on it. Trees were only 3-5m high but their brnaches were as long as half of tree and whole tree was in bright red leafs, there were weird fruits on those trees. They were brown in color, round and as big as childs fist. There was many weird plants growing from earth in many different shapes. For example close to the trees grew weird looking sunflowers with yellow leafs but inside were small sharp looking spikes and one big seed in the center. Sun looked like always and judging by temperature it should be summer here. What was Weird is that Philip couldn't find any animals. "I need to find out where I am first, at least I want to know where is my burial ground"

After checking his surroundings Philip got up, when he was about to carefully come closer to one of the trees dodging those dangerous looking sunflowers he found out that he was lower than before and checking it more carefully it turned out that he was now in childs body, he suddenly felt very hungry, so hungry that he could not control himself and rush to those trees without caring for these sunflowers but when he came closer to one of them suddenly his legs were caught by roots coming from ground that were perfecly hidden within dense amounts of grass. Sunflower moves weren't fast but thanks to this immobilising move it was enough to cause strong headache to Philip. In this short moment he tought of many possible outcomes but every one led to serious injuries or death. "I was thinking about ending my life myslef but I will be killed by a flower and won't even have whole corpse. It only shows how useless I am" Being close to death Philip suddenly felt that its not something he want. He don't want to die in the end. But suddenly he tought about something that gave him hope. "This plant don't have eyes and humans should not be its main target but rather four legged animals, I can only bet that ends of roots are weaker than the part that keeps me, if not I'm already dead." Philip felt bitter in his heart that only way for him to win with a mere plant is to count that he was caught only by mistake. Those countless toughts emerged in Philips head but not even second passed since he was caught. Plant was getting near and Philip bent down at the same time he caught roots farer away and forcfuly pulled them up, at the same time sunflower hit his back piercing his skin but Philip finally could move his legs so he rapidly moved backward falling onto his back hurting himself even more.

Pain was only secondary to a great feeling of being alive.