Darkness surrounds me...
It feels warm...
I'm chilling peacefully.
A noise, soft and lovely... It's coming from very close.
There are another noises i can hear too but usually just two distinct noises.
A warm and comforting noise coming from almost behind me... and a rough and harsh noise that comes from sometimes far, sometimes close, but not as close as the warm one... I don't like this noise...
As I spent time peacefully, i hear some stranger noises. I began to feel sticky and wet.
I slowly started to slide. I was being pulled by something narrow and warm.
It's hard to breathe... Im trying to move, but its too narrow to move...
And after attempting to move, the warm noise increased... I'm hearing the pain in the noise...
Whatever... I stop moving because i don't want to hear the pain.
The noise slowly began to move away from me, and my body was pushed forward.
As i was being slowly pushed, my head started to feel... cold?
Wait- Something's touching me?
Im being pulled.
I'm scared!
Suddenly, I was able to move. In fact, I can move even better than before. But I've started to feel cold... It's so cold...
SLAAAPP!
Suddenly, i felt a pain in my ass... and began crying...
I miss my old place...
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--- A week later... ---
I'm so hungry... Okay, let's do this!
"Waaa... WaaaAAAAHH!"
Zara quickly come over my room and feed me.
While i was drinking my milk, i looked at Zara's face. It caught my interest My vision was blurry, but her face was too close that i could see her clearly.
Suddenly, Kofi entered the room and caught my attention. He was the second similiar noise—the disgusting one...
He came near me and did that peak-a-boo thing again...
Kofi covered his face with his hands and said "Where did i go, my son?"
I gave him a bored look.
"Peek-A-Boo, Im here! AhahaHAHAHAH!"
Is he retard or something? I can see, you hiding your face behind your hands.
At around 6-8 months old, babies begin to develop object permanence. Before this age, they think that objects they can't see have disappeared.
Hope's cognitive ability's abnormal for his age...
However, while i kept drinking, Zara smiled at me and i smiled unintentionally.
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--- A month later after born... ---
They brought me to a strange place.
An old granny laid me on a log, pierced my fingers, and then stepped back.
I'll die!
I started hearing some electronic voices and saw somethings in air and suddenly, everything turned bright blood-red.
I felt an immense pain and started crying. My voice started to slowly fade.
A few minutes later, i passed out...
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--- A few days later... ---
Zara and Kofi were watching me in a shock.
Today, i started to crawl.
My physical strength and motor skills significantly increased.
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--- A month after the Naming Ceremony... ---
I started to understand the words people were said, and tried to walk but i can't.
Dry season started and weather became hotter day by day.
I hear that my dad's preparing for something like a wave of monsters or somethings similiar.
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--- Two months after the Naming Ceremony... ---
Hope's 3 months old right now. He can barely walk and can say some basic words like 'Mother' and 'Dad'. Hope's look like a 1-2 years old child at this point.
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--- Three months after the Naming Ceremony... ---
Hope started walking better and going outside to play with the other children. However, he was still being breastfed by his mother.
One day, while playing, one of my friends suddenly fell and broke his leg. The broken bone ripped through his skin and blood started to flow...
The child's mother saw what happened and screamed loudly. As she was ran toward us...
Suddenly, a strange feeling surged inside me, and I approached my injured friend. Uncontrollably, I reached out my hand to his broken leg, and from the tips of my fingers, thin, thorny tendrils emerged, extending into his flesh, and then to his bones. It felt as though I was controlling my limbs. The tendrils began to connect and wrap the broken bone, stabilizing it. The sticky thorns helped the tendrils attach to the bone. I broke off the tendrils and extended them again, this time thinner. I began stitching up the blood vessels (arteries and veins), the damaged tendons, and nerves. Using the same tendrils, I stitched the torn skin and finished the task.
Strangely, I knew exactly what to do.
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--- Four months after the Naming Ceremony... ---
I learned that there are two seasons in the forest we live in, and that we would be attacked by a Danger Beast wave near the end of each season—and what happened today was exactly that.
I was waiting at the center of the tribe with Kaimana and the others. From the west, my uncle Kato, dad Kofi, and the other warriors started to arrive.
Everyone was alive, but two warriors were severely wounded and being carried by the others. The critically injured were laid in front of me, and everyone was looking at me—panicked, yet expectant...
Ever since i healed my friend's broken leg, i had become the center of the tribe's attention. I had changed the fate of a child who should have been amputated. I had basically become the tribe's doctor.
Anyway, the two men—one bald and the other with short hair—were in bad shape.
The bald one had a claw wound so deep you could see his bones. The short-haired man had 7 or 8 bite and claw marks all over his body but the wounds were not too deep.
Since the bald one's condition was more critical, I started treating his wounds first. I extended my tendrils, dipped them into a herbal mixture to disinfect the wounds, then began stitching and stopping the bleeding. In just 15 minutes, I had stitched both the blood vessels and the skin!
The short-haired man's condition was worsening. I quickly moved on to him and stitched his wounds as well. Despite the blood loss, he managed to survive.
Instinctively, I knew exactly what to do, and that shocked everyone. I was a five-month-old baby, looked like I was two or three years old, and what I did was utterly absurd. Even I had no idea how I was doing it...
Ding!
[Time remaining until the system fully activates: 214 days 9 hours...]
And... what is this?