Reality Check

Chapter 2

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After a few weeks of being stuck in the wilderness with Wilson, I learned more about our environment than I had from playing the game. He allowed me to stay around his camp base because it helped him stay sane enough longer. However, we were no closer than before with our friendship. Wilson had helped me make a tent for myself and a sleeping bag type of bed before he worked on his own inventions. I helped around by collecting resources and supplies for his work and for my own activities and for our food stash. He had warned me that winter was coming so we would have to make warmer clothing if we wanted to survive long enough to figure out how to escape.

Currently, I was hunting rabbits in the field nearby and collecting grass for more traps and to make rope. Wilson had requested the rope as an optional thing for me to gather supplies for, but I wanted to reinforce our tents before the cold winds could possibly tear them down. The traps near each little rabbit hole were filling up fast and were wearing thin. My backpack was also full of meat and fur of the creatures that I had previously collected earlier. Once I had checked the traps one last time, I baited the ones that would survive the rest of the day and night before I left to head back to camp. The fur would be made into warmer clothing for the two of us and the meat would last at least a week for our meals. Looking up at the sky, I started my walk back while also collecting carrots and berries and putting them in my backpack carefully.

I walked out of the shade of the trees and towards stone walls that Wilson had built and repaired for the two of us. "Wilson! I'm home with today's kill!" I exclaimed proudly. The poor scientist jumped out from behind his machinery with a spear pointed at me, but a frightened look on his face. I laughed as I went around the wall and dropped my backpack next to the chests we had set up the day before. "Woman! Why do you insist on announcing yourself like that every time?!" I laughed at his distraught questioning and shrugged. I went about my business starting to weave and sew together new clothing for the both of us while also cooking the rabbit and carrots in the crock pot that Wilson had built a few days ago. Adding some other herbs that I had collected and a bit of salt, I started on making a stew for both of us while I sewed. He continued to tinker away at the machinery while I prepared for winter. This kind of low interaction between us two was normal since he found it creepy that I know so much about him and he knew so little about me.

With him being from my favorite video game, I knew about his strengths and weaknesses compared to him knowing mine. His sanity would drop more when would get attacked by the hounds or different creatures while mine stayed about the same as long as I was left to my own devices throughout the day. I had just finished preparing our new clothing and tossed his over the machinery at him who caught it without looking up too much from his handy work. "Thank you, Y/N. Right in time for the season change." I shrugged him off as I continued to stitch away at my own garment to ensure I would be able to use it all winter long. The crock pot was slowly cooking our dinner while I finished up my seams. "Wilson, how do you keep track of time while here? I've never seen you draw lines in the dirt or write anything down," I questioned him out of curiosity and boredom since I did not have anything else to do. I carefully put everything away that I was using to make our clothing and leaned into my palm as I watched him working. "This whole thing is weird. Why does this place even exist?"

He listened to my rambling and did not answer anything I was asking, but I did not expect him to answer me. I was trying to keep my mind occupied since I did not have anything else to do other than wait for our food to be done and serve both of us. Suddenly, the machinery stopped and Wilson came and sat down next to me in front of our fire pit. "Y/N, what did you do before you got trapped here?" He asked me and I could only assume he had ran out of resources to tinker with. I tilted my head, wondering how best to explain what I was doing before I had gotten trapped in this wilderness with him, but couldn't find any other way to explain what I did in terms that I knew. "Well, I was going to school for _______ and I worked a part time job at my local retail store since I needed to pay rent every month...." I had not thought about my home since I arrived here until now.