Mike;
I woke suddenly something outside had alerted me. I stayed very still as i opened my eyes. I got up; cautiously I advanced on my door. I slid it open and saw a deer standing there, its antlers caught the sun when it looked at me.
I stood shocked. In the deer’s eyes i saw wisdom beyond what i knew. I stayed there as it grazed on a patch of grass before walking proudly from me. As it disappeared into the forest i shook my head and went back inside.
I grabbed a stick that i had fashioned as i waited for sleep to claim me last night. I grabbed one of the flatter portions of spent iron. I hit it with a rock a couple of times to straighten it out; as i looked on my handiwork i affixed the iron to the stick. I held it up and examined the rabbit skin.
The next rabbit i got i would have to dry the strips out in the sun. I took my newly fashioned spade to a corner of my house and started to dig out the area. Several minutes passed as i dug a 3 by 2 block wide hole. I then dug it down seven feet down and set a sort of stairwell going back up towards my house.
As i dug out the area under my house i was surprised at how easy it was. A couple of minutes passed. The dirt became wetter and wetter. I continued digging with growing confusion. "Water?" I said. I stopped after an hour of digging and went to my stairwell i climbed up it and started to walk on my floor but a piece of it crumbled beneath me.
With growing contempt for myself i worked my way around the edges of my house and grabbed some felled trees. I drug them inside and downstairs. Quickly i formed a latticework to uphold the ceiling I fixed the supports and went back upstairs to test it. I felt the earth slightly bend but nothing gave way.
I wouldn’t be jumping but i had a second floor. I carted some more wood downstairs so i could set up more latticework if needed. I resumed Digging. Quickly i unearthed a pool of water leaking from a stone. Amazed i dug around and smelled the water. It smelled clean! I took a drink of it and it tasted as if it had sugar in it.
I knew this taste! This was a spring; it was my luck to have built my house here. I cleared the area out around it then moved backwards to examine it. Amazing! I could almost see a face in the rock. Quickly i headed back upstairs and fished a rock from my pile.
Around an hour later i finished chiseling and there in front of me sat a dragon with wings extended behind the pool. Exhausted i took a long draught from the spring. I started back upstairs and laid down on my patch of dirt and went to sleep.
