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Chapter 2 - The growth of knowledge inside

After waking up to the light around me I got up and once again started wandering the forest except this time it was looking for red bubbly berries.I spent hours gathering them from three locations in what I thought was my area now and started to pile them up. By the time I was done the light was directly above me not off the cliff anymore and the pile of berries I had was up to my knees and about and wide as my stance. Looking down on them I lose control stuffing my face full of the berries as I was starving from gathering them as well as the running I did, I ate about half of the pile and passed out against a tree.That night I dreamt of weird things unexplainable things almost like an power or force that's invisible. Waking up the next day I have this feeling rush over me it's tingling and gives me energy what ever it was it felt good and made me feel refreshed. I looked around seeing if anything changed while I was asleep and unable to remember anything looking around much didn't change but my berries looked different some darker others mussy and sticky none of them looked right anymore as well as bugs decided to have there way at the bottom ones. It was new and made me wonder why they could end up like this but I couldn't come up with anything so I tried one. Aiming for ones that where darker and the same shape still I ate some. They didn't seem to have anything wrong but I could taste something different something new. Nothing seemed to be wrong with them so I ate them with no problems and moved on to the sticky ones. I tried to put one in my mouth but it had a vegetable strong smell making me want to throw it away. With this I tried to see if I could eat it anyway but no I couldn't it made me want to gag and throw up the second it hit my tongue. Spitting and hurling the deflated sticky berries out of my mouth I wiped my tongue off fast as fast as I can now keeping this in mind I looked at my pile of berries differently. I wondered why exactly that happened to the berries and if I could keep it from happening from the berries. With this thought in my mind as I went throughout the forest gathering berries once again I only filled myself up I didn't gather more than I needed and examined how the berries are attached to the bush as well as how they pull off plus what happens to them when they get pulled off,I did this all day. As Night time approached I headed back to my clearing sitting down on the ground thinking about what I learned today, in how when you pull the berries off overtime they slowly deflate or die as well as you can only really terror off the berries there's no way to just pull them off. When they're left in the sun for a long period of time they can actually harden and get darker as well as when I do this they taste different keeping this in mind I fell asleep. The next day I woke up and immediately checked out the berry pile. It now had a foul odor and flying in sex we're around the pile feeding off berries when they landed. Looking through the pile trying my hardest to avoid the smell I noticed the ones that were darker the insects didn't land on as well as the ones that were exposed to the sun still gotten darker and harder. I proceeded to eat one, nothing happened at first and the only thing that I noticed that was different was it was a little crunchy and The taste from before is stronger now. With this now I thought I knew how to keep The berries good to eat as long as I spaced them out as well as made sure they had a good amount of sunlight on them they should be good to eat the two days at least. Excited I learned how to keep them good to eat I went to the forest to collect more this time thinking of a way to hold more Caring handfuls back takes all day and makes it to where I have almost no time to learn. It's nighttime now the thought of some thing to carry the berries is on my mind a lot now with this I lay out the berries and make sure they're in good positions and then pass out on the tree. Waking up the berry pile smells very very bad the foul odor now being the reason why I woke up looking over at the pile the berries are black and completely mushy. The smell being so bad I had to move away I attempted to stay in my clearing by moving the berries in anyway possible way I could think of but none of them worked only thing left I could think of is that where I laid out my berries if they were the same. Running over there my berries completely fine now just a little bit darker and harder like the ones I found before still smelling the foul odor I grabbed as many berries as I could and moved away to the nearest clearing. Laying down my berries once again in an area with good sunlight but spreading them out as well I thought about what I was going to do for the day that now I have lost for what I have stayed before. With the loss of my old clearing I learned that the berries can also be a very dangerous thing today i used a lot of leaf,sticks, and herbs to make small bags out of them to see if they would work. Only one of the designs worked it's a design where are used a thin long herb like plant to wrap around my body and then use sticks and leaves to hold items against my chest. I'd like the design though and how I can bend down and run with it so I did not mind that it was smaller as well as on my chest. With my new bag today I explored putting about 20 to 25 berries into my bag and going through the forest to learn what was out there. While going through the forest I saw many different types of creatures some being big butt stubby and furry creatures with big claws, tall and thin creatures with horns, small and roundish creatures with long ears, colorful flying ones that can make a high pitch sound, and small ones some thin and long others more round and all having a rough texture of skin as well as blade like eyes. Nothing about the terrain change too much only thing that was really different was I came across some old trees like really old trees. Some had to be at least 20 to 40 times my size and their trucks were bigger than me. Keeping in mind how big things can be i moved swiftly though the forest but precisely looking and observing new things. I returned home as I ran out of berries and slept that night against a new tree in my new clearing Learning I'm going to have to do something about cover and maybe even a real shelter as rained heavy last night. Waking up I explored the forest more now in hopes of finding a shelter somewhere in the woods after the heavy rain to help protect me from the climate and other creatures I'm not aware of. I looked for what felt like all day Watching the light get darker as I continued but I kept moving on. As it was just becoming hard to see I found a tree with a large hole in it I had no idea why the tree had a hole like this it was shaped like something just cut through it but the top was still intact and it was alive. So I crawled inside using the last bit of light I had to make things somewhat comfy on the inside with leaves and branches that I gathered before it became dark with that my first makeshift shelter became a real thing.