Fresh Blood (Survival World Book 1) by Jessica Hicks

Author:Jessica Hicks [Hicks, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-09T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Felix stood on the ground and looked up at his new base. It was certainly something.

The waterfruit tree stretched toward the sky. The lowest branches braced a platform that circled the tree. A ladder hung off the edge. On top of the platform, a little house was built encircling the tree. The walls were made of rough hewn wood and held together by vines. The roof had the broad waterfruit tree leaves serving as shingles.

From inside the door, there was a crate straight in front against the tree trunk. To one side, a slipshod chest to store his extra goods, and on the other, the grandest thing he’d seen in weeks. He had a bed. Yes, the padding was just leaves, and yes the craftsmanship left much to be desired, but it was a bed.

Taken all together, his base was primitive and ugly. But it was his, and he had laid out the plans and made it, all on his lonesome while everything went wrong all around him.

He wished he could share this with Koale. That old lizard would be positively thrilled to have a solid base of operations to plan his schemes out of.

Felix sighed. That thought brought him back to harsh reality. It was still early in the day, and while he had worked on the furniture, he also worked on a way to let him catch bigger prey than the snares allowed without ending up as lunch for something else.

The problem, so far as Felix could see it, was two-fold. First, Felix didn’t know where the proper place to find creatures looked like. Secondly, the creatures around here were much better at killing than he was.

Felix set out from his base. He wanted to get some distance from his base before he tried anything. He found himself a tree with branches he might reasonably climb to.

Below his chosen branch, Felix piled the offal from the earthworm and the glider. With any luck, that should take care of his first problem and something would come to him.

He climbed up to the branch. He had taken the time earlier to make something he hoped would give him an edge when something did show up. He pulled a net out of his inventory and readied it to be dropped below.

He readied his spear and leaned back and prepared to wait.

And wait he did. Felix was bored. Nothing moved around him, and his rear end was numb. His eyes grew heavy and he struggled to fight off sleep.

Just as he thought he was going to lose the battle, Felix heard thundering footsteps in the distance. Fear jerked him awake. What if it was another landshark? No net would allow him to take on that monster, and he doubted the tree could shelter him.

He got a glimpse of it through the trees. It was massive, but it wasn’t a landshark. He couldn’t judge well from the angle, but it looked nearly as tall as he was, but broad. It looked like a cross between an elephant and a hippo.

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