While looking at the fallen beast with admiration.

“Wait maybe I should kill it before it wakes up and recognise us again.”

I decided to end its life peacefully, as I bend down towards the Horhog-

“Oh thank you! Thank you! Thank you!”

A snot covered girl crashes into my side…

“Careful! I have a dagger out.”

I warned as I try to push her away.

“Ah! I’m sorry, I was just overwhelmed that we made it out alive, I thought I would of definitely died.”

I proceed to stab the Horhog in the brain and finished with slitting its throat while the girl apologise.

“Yea who’s fault was it that it turned into ‘we’ *sigh* …

Anyways, no problem, I was going to try and help before hand until i got hit by a rock.”

“I’m really sorry…”

“It’s fine it’s fine, now help me move this thing, it's almost nightfall, I want to harvest some meat for meals before it gets dark. I also don’t want to say here, the blood will attract other beasts.”

“Ah, yes, I will help.”

I continued skin the Horhog and cut out a chunk of its ribs and a slab of its belly meat.

“Wow, thats a Mythite Dagger, those are extremely rare! Such a pretty aqua colour...”

“Really?”

I never noticed, my mentor gave me this for harvesting. It is quite a good knife, it barely needed sharpening even after all these years of use.

“Yea! It's really expensive! I’m not sure how you got it. Also it usually takes several quality steel knives to just carve the hide off a Horhog, but you’ve almost finished it in one go!”

True, I knew the hide was tough watching it crash into trees and breaking them, but my knife cut through it with relative ease and it’s also the first time i’ve met this animal.

“You are really good at harvesting, so maybe you’re a rich hunter? But you can also use fire magic.”

“No I’m just a wanderer with no plans yet. I learned methods of harvesting through trial and error.”

“That’s amazing!”

“Yea…”

She doesn’t know I actually don’t know how to hunt these new animals I met, I just got lucky! Lets not tell her I burnt my first attempt…

“I’m a hunter and gatherer for my village myself hehe.”

She does seem happy while harvesting.

I continued to cut off the hind legs, this should be enough for a few days.

I tied up the legs with a nearby vine and packed the rib and belly cuts with fairly large leaves found nearby.

“Ok, that’s that done, so what will you be doing?”

“Oh, um wait. You’re not going to harvest anything else?”

“Not really, this should last a few days of food provisions.”

“Actually, with a lot of the parts left, people harvest and sell them at a high price you know? As you’d probably have seen the hide is extremely tough, so it can be used with leather to make high quality leather armour, the horn and teeth of the Horhog is often used to make components for various tools and such. They’re also quite desirable.”

“I see. I’m surprised you know so much”

“Well of course, I am a good hunter afterall!”

The girl puffs her chest out triumphantly but keeps glancing at me…

Does she want a reaction?

I proceed to ignore her antics and thought about it.

It does sound interesting, however with the knowledge from Earth, they also had tools in ancient times using animal parts, but the newer technologies I want to investigate doesn’t need any.

“It’s fine, you can have them.”

When I said that she seemed relieved.

“Really? Thank you so much! I’ll try and sell these at the next town over. I won’t be in as much trouble anymore…”

“You’re not taking it back to your village?”

“Ah you see…”

Oh great, there's a whole background story with this? I will definately be dark by the time she finishes. I quickly interrupt her before she takes off.

“I’m actually-”

“Wait wait wait, I’ll listen to your story over dinner, it’s getting late and I need to find a camp, I assume you won't be making it back to your home when it's dark so let’s find a spot to start a fire.”

“Oh, Uh ok.”

And so I helped her harvest all the parts and packed them up.

“Wait a second, I can use some water magic, let me help clean up.”

She interrupts near the end.

“Oh, That’s quite useful, I usually clean with leaves other bits of water reserves I find. Thank you.”

“No worries! ‘Water spout’.”

A water stream pours out of her palm and flow like an open tap.

We finish cleaning up everything…

“Oh by the way, why did that Horhog chase you?”

“...”

She turns her face away in silence…

Not gonna talk huh?

Whatever, It’s so obvious you were the cause for it to go on a rampage like that.

After we finished with everything we continued walking for a short while until reaching an opening amongst trees that would be suited to start a fire and settle camp.