Chapter 11

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  1. Chapter 11.
  2. There were these things to Dio.
  3. He transferred all the eggs from the small beach into
  4. the shelter, repairing them near a sleeping area.
  5. It took all his will to keep from eating another
  6. one as he moved from.
  7. But he got it all done when they were out
  8. of sight again.
  9. It was easier, he added, which the fire and cleaned
  10. up the camp area.
  11. A good laugh at cleaning up the camp.
  12. All he did was shake out his windbreaker and hand
  13. in the sun to dry the buried useless soap in
  14. it smoked sand where he slept.
  15. But it was a mental thing.
  16. He had gotten depressed, thinking about how they hadn't found
  17. him yet and when he was busy, had something to
  18. Dio and something to dio.
  19. The depression seemed to leave.
  20. So there were things to Dio With the camp squared
  21. away, he brought in more would decided to always have
  22. enough on hand.
  23. For three days after spending one night without a fire
  24. for a friend, he knew what was staggering amount of
  25. would it would take.
  26. He worked all through the morning, add that would breaking
  27. down dead limbs and breaking or chopping them into smaller
  28. abuses, storing them neatly beneath the overhang.
  29. He stopped wants to take a drink of the lake,
  30. and it is a reflection.
  31. He saw the swelling on his head nearly gone.
  32. There was no pain there, so he assumed he had
  33. taken it, had taken care of itself.
  34. His leg was also back to normal, although he small
  35. pattern holds roughly spar shape where the clothes had nailed
  36. him. Well, he was standing in the lake George taking
  37. stock. You notice that his body was changing?
  38. He had never been fat.
  39. They had been slightly heavy with a little extra weight
  40. custom of his about both sides.
  41. This was completely gone and stomach caved in hunger when
  42. the sun and cooked them as burning.
  43. So he was scanning and with the smoke from the
  44. fire on his face, his face was starting to look
  45. like a leather.
  46. But perhaps more than his body was changing his mind
  47. or in the way he waas was becoming I'm not
  48. the same.
  49. He thought, I see.
  50. I hear differently.
  51. He did not know when the change started, but it
  52. was there when a sound came to him.
  53. Now he didn't just hear it.
  54. You knew it.
  55. He would swing and look at it.
  56. Ah, breaking twig.
  57. A movement of their and no, The sound is if
  58. somehow he could move his mind Backed out of the
  59. way of the sound The tourist He couldn't know what
  60. sound it was before he quite realized he heard it.
  61. And when he saw something heard moving away inside a
  62. bush or on the water, he would truly see that
  63. thing. Not just noticed it.
  64. As he used to notice things in the city, he
  65. would see all parts of it.
  66. See the whole wing feathers see the color of the
  67. feather to see the bush to the size and shape
  68. and color of its leaves.
  69. He would see the way the light moved with the
  70. ripples on the water And see that the wind, me,
  71. the ripples and which way the wind had blown to
  72. meet. The ripples move in a certain way.
  73. None of that used to be in Brian.
  74. And now it was part of him.
  75. A change part of him, A grown part of him
  76. in two things.
  77. His mind and his body had come together as well
  78. had made a connection with each other that he didn't
  79. quite understand what his ears heard, A sound or his.
  80. I saw site his mind to control of his body.
  81. Without his thinking, he moved the face to face.
  82. The sounder site moved to make ready for it to
  83. deal with it.
  84. There were these things to Dio.
  85. When the wood was done, he decided to get a
  86. signal fire ready.
  87. He moved to the top of the rocking ridge, the
  88. comprised bluff over the shelter, and was pleased to find
  89. a large, flat stone area.
  90. More would, he thought moaning inwardly.
  91. You went back to the fallen trees on more dead
  92. limbs, carrying them up the rock until he had enough
  93. for a bonfire.
  94. Initially, he thought of making a signal fire every day,
  95. but he couldn't.
  96. He would never be able to keep the woods by
  97. going. So while he was working, he decided to have
  98. a fire ready.
  99. If he heard an engine or even thought he heard
  100. a plane engine, he would run up with a burning
  101. limb and set the signal on fire things to Dio.
  102. At the last trip to the top of the stone
  103. bluffed with the wood he stopped, sat on the point
  104. overlooking the lake, arrested the likely before I'm one of
  105. your feet so below had not seen it this way
  106. since he came in with the plane, remembering the crash
  107. at a moment of fear.
  108. Ah, breath tightening, little real fear.
  109. But it passed, and he was quickly caught up in
  110. the beauty of the scenery.
  111. It was so incredibly beautiful.
  112. There was almost unreal.
  113. From his height, he could see not just the lake
  114. but across the part of the forest.
  115. A green carpet.
  116. It was full of life.
  117. Birds, insects.
  118. There was a constant hum and song at the other
  119. end of the bottom of the, uh there was another
  120. large rocks sticking out over the water on top of
  121. the rock snugly pine somehow found food and grown, bent
  122. and gnarled.
  123. Sitting on one limb was a bluebird with the crest
  124. and sharp peak Kingfisher.
  125. He thought of a picture he had seen once, which
  126. left the branch while he watched and it dove into
  127. the water.
  128. It emerged to split part of a second later.
  129. Its mouth was full of small fish, wiggling silver and
  130. son. Mhm.
  131. It took the fish to the limb, struggled it twice
  132. and swallowed it whole fish off course.
  133. He thought they were efficiently your food.
  134. If a bird could do it, he scrambled down the
  135. side of the bus and tried to the edge of
  136. the lake, looking down in the water.
  137. Somehow it never occurred to him to look inside the
  138. water only at the surface.
  139. The sun was flashing back into his eyes, and he
  140. won't have to side to look and took his shoes
  141. off. And he moved and waited out 15 ft and
  142. he turned and he stood still with The Senate is
  143. back, and he studied the water again.
  144. It waas he saw after a moment literally packed with
  145. life. Small fish from everywhere, some narrowing, longs from around
  146. most of them three or four inches long, someone a
  147. little bit larger, many smaller.
  148. There was a path of mud off to the side
  149. leading into deeper water, and he could see old clamshells
  150. there, so there must be clams.
  151. As he watched a crayfish looking like a tiny lobster
  152. left one of the empty themselves.
  153. I went for another, looking for something to eat thinking
  154. with the claws While he stood, some of the small
  155. round fish came quick, close to his legs and intense
  156. got ready and made a wild stab crabbing one of
  157. them then explode away at 100 s of quick light.
  158. So fasting and no hope of catching them that way.
  159. But they soon came back.
  160. Seems to be curious about him when you walk from
  161. the water.
  162. He tried to think of a way to use that
  163. curiosity to catch them.
  164. He didn't know hooked or strings.
  165. But if he could somehow lured them into the shallows
  166. and make a spear small fish spear you might be
  167. able to strike fast enough to get one.
  168. He would have to find the right kind of would
  169. slam straight.
  170. He had seen some willows up along Lake.
  171. It might work.
  172. He could use the hatchet, sharpen it shape.
  173. While he was sitting by the fire tonight on that
  174. brought up fire which he needed to feed again.
  175. He looked at the sun and thought it was getting
  176. late in the afternoon when he thought of how late
  177. it was.
  178. He thought he added, reward him for his work with
  179. another egg that made him think of some kind of
  180. dessert. That would be nice.
  181. He smiled when he thought of desert so fancy and
  182. he wondered if he should move up the lake and
  183. see if he could find some raspberries after he blanket
  184. of the fire while he was looking for the right
  185. word for a spear spear, would he thought.
  186. And it all rolled together, just rolled together, rolled over
  187. him. There were these things to Dio.