Day 7:<\/p>\n
Even when your bed stinks of dead animal, a soft bed made of wool is light years better than a cave floor. Even a dirt cave floor, but especially a stone cave floor. I think today marks the first day I woke up relatively warm and dry since I arrived.<\/p>\n
Today marks a week since I woke up on the shore. At least, a week of days here – it still only feels like a few hours Company Standard time.<\/p>\n
I ate the last of the bread. I have some mutton left over from yesterday and one solitary fish.<\/p>\n
Since everything here seems to grow faster than it does at home, today I decided to start a garden. Cut down two sizable trees from near the shoreline, made some fence posts, and fenced off a bit of the water so that I don’t have to worry about errant cows or horses or zombies or whatnot wandering through.<\/p>\n
(I guess the pony-sized spiders are still a threat, but since that first day I haven’t heard any hissing, so maybe they’ve moved on? Would migrating spider ponies be better or worse than spiders that stake out a territory and stay put? At least the 2nd one I can kill off and keep clear?)<\/p>\n
I planted some grass seed and one lone carrot that I found a few days ago. (I think a zombie dropped it?) No idea if any of it will grow. If I die tomorrow, at least the Company will see I tried to survive.<\/p>\n
I also found a big mushroom. I mean big. Like it was the same size as the tree that I took down to make the fence posts. At first I thought it was fantastic! I could use it to make things! It was soft and squishy and… and gross, actually. Mushrooms are not building material. But it does appear to be edible.<\/p>\n
Either that or I ate some the day I arrived on this planet, I’m with my crew, and this is all some momentous hallucination.<\/p>\n
It seems as reasonable as the idea that the concussions from being blown up… four? times now? are causing me to dream this whole thing.<\/p>\n
I used to be able to make a mean portobello burger. This giant mushroom is almost exactly the right texture, and the flavor seems ok too. But I ate all the bread and I don’t have any flour. Or ketchup. I haven’t seen anything even remotely like a tomato yet.<\/p>\n
But! Soup! I bet I could carve a bowl out of a rock or a chunk of wood or something and make soup. Oh cod soup would be perfect for eating in the cave.<\/p>\n
And now I miss tea.<\/p>\n
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