One day, a seed had been planted here, precisely on the place I lay down right now. Planned carefully by fate, it had started its journey towards the light. Roots grew ever larger, a bark to prove the many endured hardships and finally a lush, green crown of carefree leaves. But just as fate builds it up, it also tears it down: the lightning of antiquity struck and the crown passed on. To think that, even after death, this pillar of majesty would prove useful to the next generations; serving as my hiding place to escape certain death, for example.
The wild boar was snuffling and digging around, but it would surely charge at me once it noticed my presence. Looking at it from the positive side, wasn't this exactly what I had wanted when I left the shack? Boar meat is perfectly edible! The only problem was that it wasn't clear whom of us two would end up as dinner...
I glanced at the weapon trembling in my hand and then peeked at the ferocious boar inching closer. There was no time for my cowardly hesitance! Had my training been so fruitless that a simple boar proved diffculty? I steeled my resolve and launched myself into the sky with the help of the fallen tree. Time seemed to flow erratically all of a sudden but my eyes were pinned on my target. As the information started to seep out of the beast, my sword flipped around in my hand. My spirit seemed to have lingered in the air for a bit longer but when it reached my body once again I had already thrusted my sword deep into the swine's skull as it lay writhing on the ground. The data circulating through my orbs faded along with the life left in the animal, a grim reminder of how fragile our existence is.
"Well, would you care to join me for dinner?" I said, my irony a bit forced as I carried my prize back to the shack.
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Short Story"Some say your life starts when you finally open your eyes. Strangely enough, my venture only begun when I finally decided to close mine."
