When you are hungry and thirsty everything looks like food and water. Ok well thats not entirely true, small children only look like food (ha ha is he joking? You'll never know...) So after the initial shock of being free wore off, my growling stomach and dry throat took over as far as impulses went. The nice thing about being in a field is that obviously the plants are getting water from somewhere, so you too can get water somewhere (unless that somewhere is underground, at which point you spend a futile search looking for the water and die while laying on top of it, ironic).
Thankfully for you as a reader and me as a person I managed to find a small pond that didn't look too disgusting to stop me from drinking the water like it was my last hope for survival. I drank until I threw up, and then I drank some more (either I threw up from drinking too much water, or what was in it, I really couldn't tell you). With one part of my body's desire wrapped up, I started looking around for food (I could have tried fishing, but I had nothing to fish with and I'm not a huge fan of fish to begin with). Ponds are a great source of food, outside of fish they tend to have edible plants nearby, or bring you edible animals who come to drink. I wasn't waiting their an hour before some kind of weird small herbivore arrived for a drink and I murdered it (look I'm sure it had a full life blah blah blah, I WAS HUNGRY). In my haste for a meal I may have over used my fire to kill the creature (a bit extra crispy), on top of that flesh cooked with hair not exactly the most appetizing meal I've eaten.
Immediate concerns taken care of I started trying to assess my situation. As I said yesterday I was in a weird place, I had no memory of how to get where I was, or get away from it. I saw no means of travel there (horses or other wild animals other than what I killed and ate). I was about to well take a nap when the shorties showed up. They looked like they had simply just ran out there (which spoke to wherever I was being close to where I was before), their little legs were covered in dirt and grime. I had to wonder if they had been dispatched as soon as I broke free or were just on the way to I dunno get in my way? Sadly because they had no pack animals they really were of no use to me (I mean you can try and ride a shorty, but they are so stubborn and so short, you wouldn't do anything but waste your time, not that I have tried or anything *cough*).
They hadn't spotted me crashed out next to the small pond and I'd hoped they were going to just pass over, notice I wasn't there and move on. Alas that is never the nature of my life. The little bastards stopped and fanned out trying to look for me! This at least was nice in that it confirmed that the Man in White despite his mental powers didn't have an exact mental lock on me (or he did but I got rid of it somehow), but this came at the cost of there now being twenty little people searching a field for me, and I couldn't really hide the best.
I did what I do best (no I didn't run away you jerk, I hid, the other thing I'm good at). Taking an open reed from near the pond I waded my way in and used the reed as a makeshift breathing tube. I'll admit the water felt a lot worse being in it than drinking it, that combined with the mud I found myself knee deep in made this plan extra dumb. And that's where I'll leave you, with me underwater hoping my shorty pursuers don't notice my air tube. Tomorrow you'll see how well this actually worked.
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