The pain is gone,
Am I better now? Did I die for a second time and go to an afterlife?
[Welcome to your new life!
Your area of excellence was adaptation!
Your area of mediocrity was digestion.
You have been granted the skills Adaptation and Iron Stomach! Good luck!]
'Shit.'
I dont even have to open my eyes to tell Im once again not human
As I do I hold my hands in front of me
'Oh wow. HANDS!'
'Wow my snout is huge.'
Doesnt take more than a few seconds to tell that Im the same thing that was my undoing in my past life,
A rat
Very similar surroundings as my past life, I must be in the same forest?
A thousand questions and theories start to arise but I hush them, they wont do me any good
Still. A month? I died after a month? Im bad at this.
I lower my posture and begin walking on all fours, probably by some combination of that adaptation 'skill' and my past lifes experience of a cat I walk smoothly and quickly
'Wow.. Everythings even bigger!'
Any shock and fear related to the System and being reborn seems to be numbed by some paranormal phenomena but the shock of how big everything is from this perspective is clearly felt as my hearts thumps are felt vividly
*Grumble*
Just like last time..
The smell of the soil moistened by the dew is strong in my nostrils,
But more strongly than that is the desire to find food, doesnt take much looking around before I find one of the berry bushes that are very common in this forest
I walk briskly while keeping an eye out for birds, In my scared state I roughly move through the grass
In the past life the tweets and songs of birds that decorated the leaves were kind of relaxing but now theyre quite scary
I pluck a berry with my hands and begin to eat it
An intoxicating sweetness I didnt get to enjoy fills my mouth, as my teeth pierce the berry its sickly sweet sent seeps out
'Amazing'
*Rustle*
'Huh'
I look around a bit,
'I dont remember anything other than rodents and little birds in this forest..'
I begin eating the previously poison berries once again
'Truly delicio-'
"SQUEEAL"
'AAAAH FUCK SH-'
I struggle just long enough to see the face of my attacker. The face of a wildcat.
Youve gotta be fucking kidding me.