The Third Day, the Frost (2010)
“It goes in stages.
First you’re so hungry you think you’ll faint. Your stomach is one huge empty refrigerator: the light’s on, the door’s open, but there’s nothing in it. Then that stage passes and it gets better.
You don’t think about food nearly as much, and the idea of food actually makes you a bit sick. You can go on for quite a while when you’re in that stage.
I kept walking for a long time, avoiding any clear spaces, any roads or fire trails. I stuck to the thickest bush, trying to stay i...nvisible, not just to anyone on the ground but to people in the sky too. It was extra tiring, having to concentrate so hard all the time.
When you’re lost in the bush you’re meant to go back to your last-known point and start again. I’d had that drummed into me often enough. I couldn’t do it though, because I didn’t really have a last-known point. Or if I did, it was the wharf at Cobbler’s Bay. I could have gone back there, but would they have lent me a map and a compass?MoreLess
First you’re so hungry you think you’ll faint. Your stomach is one huge empty refrigerator: the light’s on, the door’s open, but there’s nothing in it. Then that stage passes and it gets better.
You don’t think about food nearly as much, and the idea of food actually makes you a bit sick. You can go on for quite a while when you’re in that stage.
I kept walking for a long time, avoiding any clear spaces, any roads or fire trails. I stuck to the thickest bush, trying to stay i...nvisible, not just to anyone on the ground but to people in the sky too. It was extra tiring, having to concentrate so hard all the time.
When you’re lost in the bush you’re meant to go back to your last-known point and start again. I’d had that drummed into me often enough. I couldn’t do it though, because I didn’t really have a last-known point. Or if I did, it was the wharf at Cobbler’s Bay. I could have gone back there, but would they have lent me a map and a compass?MoreLess
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