Pov- Ivy
I slowly woke up and was wondering if I was dead. To check if I was alive, I decided to pinch myself and soon realized that I could very much still feel pain. In hindsight I probably did not need to pinch myself so hard.
After knowing for certain that I was very much alive I started to look around me and see if I could look for answers about what happened. The last thing that I remember was getting the green liquid on me after cutting my hand with the glass from the vile. I also remember the bear was very much about to eat me.
I noticed a few things after looking around the weird cave. One thing was that my hand was completely healed from the earlier cut. Another thing I noticed was the bear was suspiciously missing. There was also the thing that the hole in the wall has also disappeared. Finally, I realized that the green liquid that did not land on me and instead landed on the floor had disappeared.
After realizing that I was not in any danger anymore I broke down. I curled into a ball and cried. I had almost died all because of my greed, over confidence, and arrogance. I kept crying there in the cave all alone until I saw the sun was slowly falling.
I decided to make my way home to not worry mom. I also decided to not tell her about my near-death experience that had happened today due to not wanting to be yelled at by her.
As the sunset I had reached home and saw that my mother was just finishing making dinner through the window. I went into the kitchen, helped her finish dinner and ate with her and went to sleep for the night.
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A few months later-
It has been a few months since what I am calling, "the bear scare". It has been a busy few months and a few things have changed since that time. I guess I will start with the bad things first. One of the bad things is that the nightmare that I had a few months back about a city blowing up has become more and more frequent. I am also worried that that nightmare is not just a dream though because over the last few months a lot of bombs have been fired around the globe causing much destruction.
The other issue I have been suffering through the last few months is a lot more worrisome for me. Recently, my mother has come down sick and does not have long. She has been trying to hide it, but I overheard her talking about it on the phone with a friend of hers. The frustrating thing is that she does not want to tell me and keeps acting like everything is fine while it is not. So far, I have exercised great patience by not asking her about it and letting her tell me herself, but I am not sure how long my patience will last.
One of the good things that has happened though is that over the last few months I have been learning to hunt from my mother. She told me that she wants me to be safer while traveling in the woods, which I am sure is true, but I am also sure that she is teaching me now because she is worried that if she waits, she will run out of time. It turns out though that I am a very quick learner when it comes to hunting. Over the last few months, I have learned a wide range of skills from tracking, setting traps, shooting, harvesting, and even how to properly cook what you hunt.
So, I guess not just hunting but overall wilderness survival. I also learned more about myself in that I really hate using guns. I do not know why but I just don't like using them. When I told my mother that she did not question me and instead taught me all about bows and how to shoot them. She also taught me how to make them and how to make arrows for them. While the bow is a lot less effective than a gun it does feel a lot more natural to me.
As for the last change that happened over the last few months, I don't know how to categorize it. I have been experiencing changes with my body over the last few months, and just to put it out there I do not mean changes involving puberty. One of those changes is that my senses have been enhanced greatly compared to before. That change is how I overheard my mother. Another change is that I am a lot stronger than before. I ended up becoming as strong as a fully grown adult male.
Those two changes are the tamer changes. Another change that I noticed is that my blood has changed its color to green. I learned this while running through the woods recently and apparently with more strength comes more speed, so I ended up not knowing my own speed and I tripped and landed right on my nose. From my nose came green liquid. Another change is that I think I am doing photosynthesis. I end up spending many hours under the sun and I have recently learned that I am never really hungry anymore. The only time I was hungry was when it rained for like 3 days and at the end of that time, I did end up being a bit peckish.
The final change to me is a change that I do not know if it is physical or not. For some reason I can get this weird feeling from all plants around me. It's not like they are talking to me or anything, it's more like an understanding between us.
Currently I have two working hypotheses for why this is happening to me. Both must deal with that green liquid. One theory is that the liquid was not a poison to animals but instead transformed them into plants. The other theory which I think is much more likely was that I was born a tree person, and the liquid enhanced my plant biology giving me these new abilities.
Overall, a lot has happened to me over these last few months. I have decided to hide the plant thing from my mother to not give her anything else to worry about in these coming months. I am now noticing a pattern of something big happening to me and me not telling my mother. The guilt that comes with it does not feel good, but I think it's for the best.
Currently things feel very calm, but I feel like something big is coming soon and honestly it scares me a lot.