Passager
“HOUSE HIS USUAL MORNING INCLUDED A DRINK OF water from the stream and a casual hunt for food. But this morning he saw, through the bare ligaments of trees, the thin line of chimney smoke.
House. The word came unbidden into his mind. And with the thought of house came the idea of food. Not berries and mushrooms and nuts and the occasional silver-finned, slippery fish torn open and devoured bones and all, but food. He was not sure what that meant anymore, but his mouth remembered, and filled with... water at the thought.
So he crept back down the path to the edge of the trees and squatted on his haunches, to stare avidly at the house.
There was a stillness about the house, except for that thread of smoke that seemed to unwind endlessly from the chimney.
At the prompting of his stomach, which ached as if it had suddenly discovered hunger for the first time, the boy left the sanctuary of the forest and ventured into the clearing. But he crept cautiously, like any wild thing.MoreLess
House. The word came unbidden into his mind. And with the thought of house came the idea of food. Not berries and mushrooms and nuts and the occasional silver-finned, slippery fish torn open and devoured bones and all, but food. He was not sure what that meant anymore, but his mouth remembered, and filled with... water at the thought.
So he crept back down the path to the edge of the trees and squatted on his haunches, to stare avidly at the house.
There was a stillness about the house, except for that thread of smoke that seemed to unwind endlessly from the chimney.
At the prompting of his stomach, which ached as if it had suddenly discovered hunger for the first time, the boy left the sanctuary of the forest and ventured into the clearing. But he crept cautiously, like any wild thing.MoreLess
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