Kerina's Story

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Jungle Life
Kerina's Story

The sounds of the forest hung in the air as the rays of sunlight trickling through the trees woke Kerina up. She sat up and looked around drowsily. Water dripped down from the roof of her little hut. She noted that she'd have to replace it soon. She got up and walked to a stream near her camp to get some water and bathe. As she got there she saw a mime bird in the stream.

"Hi birdy," Kerina said. "Ya getting some water too?"

"hi birdy hi birdy" the mime bird repeated.

Kerina giggled as she started to wash herself. When she was finished, she walked upstream a bit and drank some water. She then turned around and waved at the mime bird. "Bye birdy," she said.

"Bye birdy bye birdy," the mime bird repeated.

"Time to get some food," Kerina said to herself. She walked back to her hut and grabbed a pointy stick and a knife that had been her father's. Then she headed off into the jungle. Before long she found some fruit in a tree. Carefully she climbed it and picked some. "This'll be a good meal," she thought to herself. Kerina climbed down and ate.

After finishing off the fruit, she began to look for large leaves she could use to patch the roof to her hut. She gathered some then returned to her hut. She carefully added the leaves to the roof. "That'll do it," Kerina said. "No rain'll get in. Time to get more food." Kerina grabbed her stick and knife and went back out to look for food again.

Before long Kerina found the tracks of a wild rappig. If she could find it Kerina wouldn't have to worry about food for a few days. Quietly she followed fresh tracks. It took over an hour, but Kerina finally caught up to it at a watering hole.

She raised her stick to strike when she realized the rappig wasn't the only thing being hunted. Kerina barely had time to react as giant sabersnake struck at her. Kerina was barely able to block the strike with her stick, but then the sabersnake quickly started to coil around her body. Kerina quickly grabbed her knife. The snake pulled her to the ground squeezing as it continued to coil around her. Desperate to get free, Kerina stabbed at it with the knife in one hand, holding its head back with the stick on the other to stop it from biting.

The snake continued to relentlessly squeeze the breath out of her body as Kerina stabbed it again and again. Finally on the verge of blacking out she felt the snake's grip loosen. Able to breathe again Kerina coughed and tried to catch her breath. She then looked up and saw her knife sticking out of the sabersnake's huge head. She uncoiled the dead body of the snake and pulled herself out. She laid down to rest after that ordeal. "In may not be rappig," Kerina said in between breaths, "but it'll still be a good meal."