A Day Of Exploration

I was really looking forward to something very different and new. I had the maps and my own personal “survival” kit- lots of chocolate and a drink, of course, my phone to record my new discoveries. “mhm, this seems like an interesting place” I said to myself, just the look makes me want to explore. It was surrounded with mountains, like a pit, the mountains were walls, and here I’ am in the “pit”. In front of me, there was a puddle. It seemed very clean, and a bird was drinking of it. “which bird is it?” I was 1 mile away I couldn’t really see it, it was obscure. I saw it with my binoculars, “it’s wounded” i said with a sad tone. There was nothing I could do about it, and besides it’s just a bird, but im sure it can still fly. I was now crouching, and I had my phone is my hand. I was zooming in, on the bird ready to take a picture, but a wolf pack of 3 surrounds the bird, it sees them. It’s trying to run away, but a wolf is faster than a bird on land, of course. I’m shaking, I don’t know why I feel sad for the bird. I try to figure out, maybe there I can save it somehow. I’m still crouching with my phone. It’s going to die anyway from its wound. So I want to take at least one picture. The wolf pack is approaching the bird. It stopped running. A wolf jumps and I just took the picture in time. The wolf was in the air and the bird looked at it, “what a nice photo!”. I’m proud of myself, when I get home I’m going to brag about it. I was now hungry, but I waited for the wolfs to go away, so I could eat my meat without they smell it. After I was done eating I walked to the puddle, it was now a blood puddle. Doesn’t seem like anyone is living here. I kept walking on a mountain while taking some pictures. I looked in my “Identifier book” called Kenai’s animals. I later found out that the bird was actually a penguin called Tufted Puffin. Red beak and some curly blonde hair going down to the ears. It was freezing cold but an amazing experience! There was moose’s, bears, eagles and very kind and friendly animals. Even though an eagle took some of my meat while I was peeing. When I reached the top of the mountain I saw smoke, “is that a village?” I thought. Wait, I thought there was no one living here. I went down, but there was no people. But there is food, and fresh water! I emptied both my bottles of water and pured some ice cold, fresh water directly from the mountain in. “mhm” well it was weird. I ate so much food, so I’m stuffed, I never knew there was people living here “But where are they?” It was relaxing, no noise from cars, it wasn’t too cold’ not too warm. Not even someone talking! “this is weird”. The only sound was a few birds tweeting. Suddenly I heard someone scream and cry, “what was that?, a human?” it sounded like a human, but where did it come from. I stood up and looked down at a cave. I saw some light, it was from torches. A flock of humans ran out of the cave. The woman didn’t scream. “How?” she just stopped. Did they kill her? They didn’t see him as they went up to their village. “mhm this is not good I should get out of here” I thought. But where?”. I couldn’t get up the way I got here, it’s a hill with ice on, I will slide down here again. Am I trapped?, what’s going on?, so many questions went through my head now, and I want an answer. “I should hide I thought down there, maybe I can get past them by sneaking and hiding by some stones. But it was too late. They were already too close. The only thing I can do is threaten them with my gun and run away. They might be dangerous. I got my bag and gun. I ran and they saw me “stand back” , they looked confused. I thought they would move and give me space to run. But apparently they didn’t know what a gun was. I demonstrated it by shooting a tufted puffin. They were scared, but I asked them what happened. I wanted to know, I wanted to know more, it was interesting. I looked on the map, “this village isn’t on the map” maybe they are the only ones that knew about it, also me, of course. They told me that some bandits came to their meadow behind the cave and killed one. “Did he have a gun?” “this thing”. They said no so I ran in the cave, I fell like it was the right thing to do. I saw the bandit, and a woman and a girl lying on the ground next to him. He had a gun! He shot after me , but didn’t hit fortunately. At this rate he is gonna shoot me, looks like he is more skilled than me. The dead woman grabbed his leg and he fell I saw it as a chance and shot him. Right in the head. The woman died shortly after that. This exploration was very dangerous, but I enjoyed it! I will never forget about it.