>>5724510>>5724516>>5724518Though this part of the wood is unfamiliar to you (no doubt on purpose, to prevent your finding your way back to the village) you are sure that there are some isolated shelters scattered around, which the hunters will have built for when they go on their longer hunts.
However, as the sun climbs over the trees beyond its highest point and you still have not found a trace of one of these shelters, you begin to grow anxious. You stop to a rest a few minutes beneath the shade of a tree with broad leaves, forcing yourself to eat some small unripe fruits you plucked along the way. They are so sour that your eyes begin to water, but you force them down for you are terribly hungry.
Then, in the silent depth of your despair, you hear the distant sound of rushing water. You follow it to a narrow stream, and after you have drunken your fill and washed your face, you go downstream to where it empties into a broader lake. There you find a small cottage, abandoned now and in modest disrepair, which probably once belonged to a fisherman.
Inside it is cool and dark, except for the hole at the top which serves to clear the smoke from the now dead hearth and other holes and cracks in the walls which have formed after long disuse. The floor is lumpy with vegetation and various insects and crawl among it.
STATUS: [Tired]
>Explore the surroundings for anything else left behind>Gather some materials to start a fire>See if you can spear some fish in the lake>Write-in 