How i would like to have said i woke up in heaven, lying on the laps of some goddess with half my view covered in boobs. But alas, I was unlucky from the start.
I woke up lying on the ground with severe headache and a deer's face looming over me. You might not think a deer can be scary, but let me tell you, one looming over helpless face with its mouth open for maybe a bite... It's scary okay, when you are supposed to be lying in you house.
I push the deer's face aside and sat up to look around against my body's orders to keep lying. Apparently the deer doesn't puts up with rude people like me, because it galloped away. It took me a while to notice my surroundings, nice cozy woods, soft dry grass, lots of crispy dry leaves, nice place for sleep, or to be buried.
Staning up took more effort than I would like to admit, my knees wobbling as much as my head. And for some reason my cheek was all wet, probably the deer having a taste before digging in.
What do you do when you are lost in woods, your legs don't want to support your wait and your head wants to burst? Ofcourse, you lying down again and feel the cruch of leaves under your frame while you wait for the adrenaline to kick in.
I just lied there, waiting for my body to get normal, very tired and sleepy but unable to sleep. Its preety reassuring to be surrounded by cruchy leaves, no and can approach you without a few million cruchy noises.
After what felt like hours but was probably just 10 or 20 minutes, my body finally allowed me to move. Why wasn't my adrenaline kicking in? Was i too calm for it? I stood up, my legs wobbling much less, just enough for me to walk without falling. After a quick look around, I found my supply bag I prepared beforehand. It was stuck on a tree branch. Does that means I fall from somewhere higher than the tree atlest? But then I would have been preety injured, all I felt was tired and nothing else.
I climbed up the tree with my pro monkey skills, my long hair which have been flying wild since i lost my rubber band almost intentionally getting into my eyes and mouth. It took some time but I got the bad out, I sat on a branch and ate some packed bread with butter and drank some cola.
While eating I found my old-is-gold Nokia phone, the indestructible model. Finally getting some hope to know where I might be, I turned it on.
"No signal"
... ofcourse, and then I threw the phone down from the tree on frustration. Being the indestructible model it was, it left a dent in the ground before bouncing off and landing safely in the grass....
Wait... my throw left a dent in the ground? Even if the phone was indestructible, it's still barely 200 gram. It would have needed more than a few hundred Newton of force to dent the ground like that! Is the gravity kinda weird in this place? But then I wouldn't have been able to walk and climb the tree like usual. What the hell is going on...
I get down from the tree with my bag and walk over to pick up the phone.
*Deep Breath*, the indestructible model had a scratch on it! If I remember correctly, this same model broke a hydraulic press without as much as a dent. Something is definitely wrong here.
While starting at the phone, I heard a new but unthreatning noise nearby. The noise of wood creaking and wheels turning. I looked just in time to see a carriage pass a few hundred meters away. Even though I started walking towards the carriage, it knew even if I run at full speed, I wouldn't reach close enough for the people in the carriage to notice me.
So I walked towards the carriage atleast hoping to find a road to follow to some civilization while muchinb on some snacks from my bag. It's quite a relief to know people and civilization are close by.
After a few minutes of walking and exhausting a good portion of my stockpile of snacks, I finally reached the dirt road. It looked old and mostly unused, almost a part of the forest now, but the carriage from before did leave enough tracks for me to follow. Strangely there were no horse footprints though, was the carriage running on an engine? Why not just use a van then?
Pondering wouldn't help me survive for now, so I ignored the pleas of the mystery and started walking down the earthen path hoping to reach somewhere, anywhere.
I walked for 4 days, drank water from the rain, stockpiling on fruits while finishing up the part of my stockpile nearing it's expiry date. I slept by the roadside at nights, the grass was nice and cool, the air warm like a blanket, no matter how much it rained, the dirt path never turned muddy for some reason. I found a good time of the year to get lost.
During my journey these 4 days, I didnt encounter one insect. A journey through a forest without being swarmed by insects? This is kinda putting me at edge, but without the means or understanding to do anything about it, I just thanked the God for not swarming me with bugs everytime i stopped under a tree.
Back to topic, I walked for 4 days and I finally reached a town but...
"What the heck is this!"
To be continued...