Chapter 12: Explore

I began to feast on the bird ravenously, letting my teeth sink deep into its flesh with the terrible visage of a wild animal.

I had already used a great amount of energy regenerating myself, and after the bird's initial attack had paralyzed me, it was a little bit poetic that I was using the same birds body to replenish my stamina now.....

Systematically, I began eating the birds flesh, starting at the two limbs, tearing off large chunks of meat till only large bones were left behind.... after clearing the flesh from the limbs.

With effort, I detached several bones from the joints, and stacked them on the floor besides me.

I then began to meticulously eat the chest and abdomen of the bird, removing the skin and meat as carefully as possible, till I could gaze at the structure and arrangement of its internal organs below....

I drank the avian blood of the beast to quench my thirst, being careful not to let much spill over onto the floor. As I ate, I began to registered all potential weak point in the birds anatomy and committed them to memory....

Finally I proceeded to eating the less than palm sized heart, chewing the tough and flexible meat for several minutes, until I felt the satisfaction of fullness.

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Finishing my meal I broke off three of the birds ribs, and put them to the side.

I drag the remainder of the corpse that I wasn't comfortable eating to a farther corner, and stashed the remains away.

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looking at the body of the bird one couldn't help but sigh at the gruesome seen of the remains.

I felt no sense of disgust whatsoever, while eating, there was no exaggerated gag reflex, or queasy feeling in the pit of my gut.

I looked at the bird the way I use to look at cooked chicken in my old world. with no empathy for the once living. In fact the only thing that kept me from continuing to eat my meal , was a slight feeling of aversion I retained from my past memories....

I brought my hand to my face wiping away the blood from my lips, while turning to walk back to my own corner of the cave.

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I rested for several hours recharging my mental state and waiting for the arrival of night...it was a peaceful sorta meditation without any thoughts,I was very surprised out how deeply concentrated I was, I felt like I had just shut my eyes, then reopened them to see that time had passed me by.

The cave was now completely pitch black, and a freezing cold wind blew in from the entranced, and travelled all the way till it crashed against my chest....the only creatures capable of navigating through this darkness. Were the creatures like me, creatures of the night.

'The birds would definitely be asleep now.' I thought

It was the perfect time for me to further explore the cave.

A perfect time to stalk through the night and hunt my prey....

I sat up straight, and began to examine the bones detached from the bird earlier. There were in total two one meter Long leg bones and three pointy ribs that could possibly be used as weapons.

I took one of the leg bones and began to swing it around, hoping to get the feel for it..... It was a very easy weapon to maneuver in my hands, and pretending I was holding a sword, I swung the leg bone as rapidly as possible.

Playing around while copying the movements and stances seen in movies of my previous world.

As the leg bone cut through the air making swooshing noises, I finally with all my strength aimed it at a wall, and smashed the leg bone against the cave interior.

Crack

Almost half of the leg bone broke loose and crashed to the floor upon impact with the wall. Unfortunately as a flying avian creature, the birds bones were hollow and brittle, it was impossible for it to act as any sort of blunt weapon.

I threw the broken leg bone to the floor, and began studying the tree rib bones.

...Bending them slightly, I found that although flexible the rib bones were able to act as weapons.

Unlike the leg bone, the rib bones only extended my reach about twelve inches. There efficiency actually fell below that of my talons, however I still felt like the extra reach would give me an advantage, so I took all three and strap one inside my loincloth, while dual wielding the other two.

I morphed my already vicious face into a savage expression and began to stab the two bones into the air....I battled imaginary enemies for a couple moments...

After a while I stopped.

whiiiiff

I breath in some of the cool air in the cave

turned to the direction of the birds and began to walk forward stealthily.

Moving through the darkness,soon I passed the area I had stopped at earlier and continued forward. As I moved I gradually approached the widest opening I had seen in the cave thus far.

I hid my body by a corner of the wall, and peeked my head into the opening slowly.

Inside a huge man made stairwell leading down into a dungeon like structure appeared. The area was large and covered in dust, with a neat design a little reminiscent of a medieval church, the several stone tiles were severely crack and didn't seem to be even attached to the floor, vegetation couldn't be seen growing anywhere, and being located in a mountain there were no windows.

further down the area, I could notice of several birds nest clustered in different parts of the stairwell and dungeon, and three statues at the very end of the area that hid a few wide stairwell behind them.

I thought I was in a cave, but this place was so much more, the stupid bird had carried and dumped me into a dungeon, and I couldn't help but wonder what dangers may lay waiting inside..... Was I really ready to explore this place/

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