That night, the sky was clear. I've waited until midnight expecting to experience the boulder/rays of moonlight phenomenon again. The nature did not fail to meet my expectation. The same thing happened that night as well. I saw the boulder being illuminated by the rays of moonlight, and animals converging into the area again. I stood up from my shelter, and joined the animals in the boulder area. I sat down about 10 metres away from the boulder and then stared at it. This phenomenon look incredibly beautiful, while the rays of moonlight seemed very mysterious. My thoughts started to drift away to some distance place. I was calm for some reason, and focused only on that boulder with the rays of moonlight. Suddenly, I felt like my consciousness was also drifting away. I tried to resist the feeling, but after a while I gave up. I felt safe and carefree, when I just stared at the rays of moonlight. Then it happened, before me I saw a misty figure, it was small and had wings? I was bewildered with one thought stuck in my mind. 'A fairy?'. It was dancing happily on the boulder without a care in the world, as if performing for all those animals gathered. I was shocked, shocked so much that I snapped out of this dream like state. When I looked around, the animals were still there staring at the boulder. 'Maybe I'm just tired?' I thought. I decided to stare at the boulder one more time. After a while, the same sensation enveloped my body. My consciousness started to drift away, while a dreamy and hazy figure with wings began to emerge. It was that fairy again, dancing on the boulder. I wasn't as shocked as before, and didn't snap out of that dream like state. I continued to watch the fairy, while forgetting everything else. I knew nothing about dancing or fairies. When I saw this fairy dancing happily under the moonlight, I was in a state I couldn't describe. I felt carefree, happy and at peace. When I finally woke up, I noticed all the animals going back into the forest, and the rays of moonlight that shined onto the boulder? No longer there. I wanted to get up, but my body was very heavy. I felt like, I was working hard non stop for couple of days. When I finally managed to crawl back to my shelter, I feel asleep instantly. I woke up the following day and noticed it was already afternoon. I also felt immense hunger. I had no meat, therefore I had to satisfy my hunger with more berries until. With my stomach full of berries, I thought about last night events. The fairy dancing on a boulder, my thoughts and consciousness drifting away, and the whole situation with hunger when I woke up. Even when I was dead tired, I would still wake up in the morning hours, it was weird for me to stay asleep for so long. I went to the boulder to examine it again, but still found nothing unusual. Then, I got an idea. 'What if I stand on the boulder, before the rays of moonlight shine on it? There would be no animals to stare swords at me at that time. I could just wait for the rays of moonlight to descend, and find out what is so special about them' I thought. With my new plan formed, I decided to spend the rest of the day t5raining and hunting. I was still a Human being, Humans didn't feed on plants alone. I went deeper into the forest in search of my prey. With my throwing skills improving everyday, it didn't take long to hunt another rabbit. After my dinner, I practiced my throwing skills again, awaiting the night time to test out my plan. My accuracy increased day by day. 'During today's practice, I was able to hit the tree two out of four throws!' I thought. I noticed that the better accuracy I wanted to achieve, the harder and longer it took to get there. 'I guess no one becomes a master after a day or two' I thought. When the night came, I executed my plan and climbed on top of the boulder. I sat down and awaited the moonlight. As expected, it appeared at pretty much the same time it did the day before. Although I was happy that it worked, when the rays of moonlight shined onto my body, I felt like dying. The feeling I had was no longer pleasant, carefree or happy, no. It felt felt more like a pig awaiting its slaughter. The rays of moonlight were taking my breaths away. I tried to move, to get away from the boulder, but my body was incredibly heavy. I was barely keeping myself conscious. The pain intensified, few seconds felt like eternity when finally, I fainted. I woke up the next day or rather, I assumed it was the next day. This time, it was morning. When I woke up, I was happy at the thought that I was still alive. I was alive, but very weak at the same time. When I tried to prop myself up, I realised that my hand was really shrivelled. I got startled by that discovery, and check my whole arm. The same sight welcomed me. In panic, I check the other arm, then both legs and finally I touched my face. "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. I was shrivelled and dry like a skeleton. I looked like a dried corpse awaking from its long slumber. I was terrified at myself. 'What the hell happened to me? Did those rays of moonlight suck away my life? Will I stay like this forever?' I asked myself. There were more questions popping into my mind every second. I was scared, confused and maybe even a bit angry. It took a while for me to finally calm down. I first tried to get off of that cursed boulder. When I moved everything hurt, as if I never used that body before. As if my muscles and bones were grinding against each other. This was not the end. As soon as I moved, the desire to eat something changed to starvation. 'I can even eat grass at that point, anything edible!' I thought. When I finally managed to get myself off of that boulder, I furiously looked for berries. I knew grass was not ideal type of food for me, it could do more harm than good. Berries were the easiest food to find in the forest, so it didn't take me long to find some. I started eating. I ate, then ate more, then more and more. Until I ate about two buckets worth of berries. I was surprised myself. 'How was it possible for me to eat two buckets of food.... of berries nontheless?' I asked myself. Somehow, I managed that. I was no longer starving, but still felt some hunger. I stopped eating for now, I didn't want to overdo it. My current state was much more bearable, compared to when I just woke up. I could still feel pain all over my body, but it was nothing to what I felt before. When I laid down on the grass, I tried to organise my thoughts. 'The idea of standing on that boulder while waiting for the moonlight, was stupid. I need to leave this place. This place is cursed!' I thought. I no longer had any interest with that boulder, or those rays of moonlight. I've rested for an hour or two, and even though I did nothing in mid-time, I still felt very hungry. I ate berries again, until I felt better. After another round of eating and resting, I managed to recover enough strength to move normally. I was still too tired to run, but it was an improvement nevertheless. I noticed that the shrivelled skin improved a bit. 'This should mean, if I just rest, and eat, my skin should return to normal' I thought. I was happy about that, if I were to visit another village in the future, people would either attack me, or scream "AAAAHHH! It's a walking corpse!". I prepared to stay one more night at that place, to rest properly. This time though, I would just go to sleep, and never go near the boulder or that moonlight again.