I wake up from my mid-day nap and crawl out of my tent. The sun is shining through the tops of the trees and I run to a small pond to wash my face. Not much to do when I live in The Spine, all alone. I haven't left this forest in 2 years. Not much to do around here except hunt eat and sleep. Oh, and practice fighting, I'm fairly good at hand-to-hand, I would be better if there was other people to practice with, and I'm better at fighting with a sword, also would be better with another person and a real sword. I stare at my reflection in the pond and sigh. The loneliness is getting to me, I need someone, anyone to talk to. Talking to trees isn't all that fun. I pull my wavy shoulder-length black hair behind my ears and rub my bright green eyes. I look like my mother....I rub my eyes again to stop the tears from coming. It's hard to think of my parents without crying. I've been alone since the urgal attack on Teirm. Those damn urgals...If I ever see an urgal I will definetely show no mercy. I run back to my camp and grab my knapsack and my hand carved spear. Time to hunt and I run out into the forest to find dinner.

I stop some time later when I see deer tracks. I bend down and feel the tracks. They're fresh. So I look around and decide to climb a tree so I can attack form above. After I get into the tree I sit and wait for a deer to come by. Not too soon after a doe trots right under the tree I'm in.
Bingo. The deer stops, obviously aware of some presence. and I smirk. I jump down from the tree and stab the doe right through the back. The deer topples over and is instantly dead. I pull my spear out of the doe and clean it with part of my tunic. As I'm cleaning my spear tip I notice something shiny and green out of the corner of my eye. I put my spear down and walk over to see what it is. Leaning right up against a tree is a bright green rock, the same color of my eyes. Wow, its beautiful. I wonder how it got here....I've never seen anything like it. I take my knapsack off my back and open it. I grab the rock and put it in my knapsack and put it back on my back. I run back to the deer and grab my spear. The deer isn't too big. So I can drag it back to camp. I grab the deer's legs and drag it back to camp.

After eating my fill of deer I sit in front of the campfire, with the bright green rock in my lap. I would go and sell it to a merchant and buy some supplies but I just don't feel safe leaving The Spine. Between bears and the empire, I think I'll take the bears. I run my hand across the rock, it's so smooth. How can this be a rock? its so unusual. I sigh. I want someone to keep me company and god gives me a rock.

"Well, I guess I'll take what I can get." I say aloud. I look down at the rock. "Well, time for bed, rocky" I chuckle and put out the fire then crawl into my tent with my pretty new pet rock. I close my eyes and slowly fall into happy dreams of my parents.

~Avariella

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