Chương 18: Ulöm

It's rare to meet something here that's not trying to kill me; another turn of good luck?

All my new fellow wander do is ruminate every plants it's able to eat all day and thanks to her I have a new sourse of nourishment ... Honestly... If ya have ever tried some goat milk ya now that It's...not really "tasty"... NOT. ONE. BIT.

I have found some edible vegetable and fruits that I had seen on the stalls in town.

To make It easy I'm just calling them :

-Arbutus barries (but purple colored) It's a little bitter and have a sweet aftertaste;

-peach avocado, but taste more like melon;

-furry porcini mushroom, smell like popcorn once cooked;

-Sticky Lactarius mushroom, it have a white juice and a spongy consistency

-Smelly eggplant, the taste is a mix of banana and Granny Smith, But it smell like fart;

-Purple lettuce, bitter, bitter like hell;

-white asparagus, taste like artichokes, love them;

-yellow clover, sour and tender, nothing special;

-day lilies, like a mixture of ginger and garlic;

-tall english daisy, once picked its start to smell like my drenched smelly sneakers that I forgot in a corner, in fact it's taste like moldy chamomile tea.

-Fennel, something normal, yay.

Etc...

Of course, I also eat the plants that I've already tried the first time I've been here; I'm testing other plants that other animals have eaten, but some time it didn't end well, I had headache, diarrhea or stomachache. Thankfully, It's been just that, I could been dead.

Despite all this, I'm still trying to eat everything that seems safe and have a similar appearance to edible plants I've known. What a masochist...

It been 3 days since I meet Baffy, it's been peaceful and no strong monster have appeared, my sleep too, the influence of the Blue Tree weakened as I move away further from it. Most of my wounds have healed. Going to the north, the terrain becomes increasingly steep, being the forest little explored, the map is obviously vague, my only point of reference is the great river Ulöm. Sooo...I made a rough map with the various reference points, the distance is marked with how much time (more or less) I have used to get from one point to another.

Now that I'm far away from YOU KNOW WHAT, I'm not in a hurry as before and if I run too fast, Baffy would be unable to keep up...should I carry her? Mmmmm...No, it will be unhandy.

After 2 day I've finally arrived at the banks of the Ulöm river...It's quite wide and wild; If I go up, maybe it would be easier to find some point cross over it. After about 3 hours of walking there are practically rapids and after an hour and a half there is a waterfall, during the trip I noticed that the river have several tributaries, some small streams and brooks.

The area near the waterfall is a rocky area so the vegetation is not very dense, the sun is starting to set, in these days the temperature is falling, I do not know if it's because of the change of season or the fact that I'm moving towards north, maybe both, to the north-east there are the mountains, maybe that too...

"It's been a month now (30 days)...Right? Glass mincer!?"

*Beeeehe*

Aaaaaa...I somehow remember something unpleasant - a comic where a castaway was fw**ing a goat. And in a certain nation, doing that is actually legal as long as the "relationship" is hetero...5H1T...That's CRAZY!! Why I always remember these stupid things?!

Today it's been one of those day when I've felt quite lazy and dazed, I ate some dried meat and drank some broth, on the horizon, only 1/3 of the sun had set when I decided to go to sleep, Baffy is next to me to keep warm together in a small space between boulders, obviously I wrapped myself up with furs to be more comfortable, I stitched them together to make a cover.

I slept but I'll always wake up because of some sudden sounds and it's a bit hard to get back to sleep, there's no nightmares anymore, but still I can't let my guard down.

Tonight, the 3rd time I woke up, it was because of a song, or at least it's sound like a song, a lot of voice...1...2...3, 4, 5...Something splashing in the water...I have no idea what's happening, should I go out and see? It doesn't sound a good idea, curiosity kill cats...yea, yeah, let's not involve us, right Buffy? ... where is the goat? ...Holy mother...please be alive...