His first day officially living alone was rough. Alec vomited for the fourth time on the shrub nearby. What was worse was that his skin has started to develop painful bumps that soon started spreading.
Putting all these aside, he was hungry. Cleaning his mouth with his ragged cloth, he left the mud house and headed to the river. When he arrived, he plunged his head and drank as much water as his stomach could hold.
He quenched his thirst, and now hunger has fully resurfaced. With a sigh, Alec looked over at the fishermen in the river and saw how they were grouping and packing fish into containers. How he wished he would just catch one. At this point, he would eat anything.
Of course, they were not as kind as Philani would want to work for them. Alec was running out of options. No, he wasn't going to end up this way, he said with a determined face.
