Chapter 69

Kain heaved various rocks over with his wand and saw another snake. He whacks it with the stick many times until it stops moving. Food! 'But how was I going to clean and heat it? "I had no blade and no fire." He placed his insufficient belongings near the waterhole and obtained the shattered waterskin and some sticks. He carefully gutted the snake and peeled the head with a strong edge of the broken rock. He scraped the bark off the sticks. It was very dry. Good! He minced the bark up and put it in a tiny pile, with the smallest sticks nearby. And make them aflame with the two dry sticks until his hand begins to cramp up. He felt the burn and a small amount of pain.

A tiny sliver was hot but nowhere close to kindling. There were no hints of smoke. And he didn't have any rope to make a bow drill fire. He knew there were ways to just rub rocks together to make fire nicely, but he didn't know the circumstances. He hadn't seen any flint around and had no dry rock to use it with anyway. "