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   The Story begins outside a cabin, in a forest, located in China. The inhabitant James, stepped   out 

from the cabin and onto the front porch. He reminisced the years he spent as a civilian of Seattle, 

USA. James helped a fugitive of the law escape the United States many years ago. Because of this, 

he was sent to a confined area in China, near Mongolia. There would be no one within a four hundred 

kilometer radius to see. James spent most of his time collecting resources such as food or water. 

He'd also spent a lot of time gathering supplies to improve his shelter. He lived in what seemed to be 

a large forest, with a variety of wildlife. James always enjoyed exploring his surroundings, where he 

would often discover new plant or animals he hadn't seen before. Although, all James ever wanted 

was to rid himself of his confinement and become a free citizen again.

   Over the years he had spent isolated from civilization. In the earlier days of his confinement, 

he resented everything around him, because it was much more frustrating to survive in the 

natural forest, rather than his accustomed urban life. Despite this, he became fond of nature in 

the later years of his confinement. He had names for each separate plant or tree he found. 

Some people may have found it odd, but James didn't care. Nature was his only company 

those days. James would also often talk to his surroundings. Occasionally he'd expect his 

surrounding to respond to him, but to no avail. Overall, he enjoyed the beauty of the forest. 

James would often stare at the massive mountain which dwarfed its surroundings. Despite 

everything he appreciated about nature, the one thing James desired the most was to become 

a free citizen again.

   James was able to complete the very difficult tasks, through consuming a powdered form of a 

plant he named Brockeulum. Whenever James consumed Brockeulum, his mind would become 

focused on the current task he would be performing and it would be nearly impossible for him to 

fall asleep, regardless of whatever would happen. After the Brockeulum's effect had worn off, 

which would be 19 hours after consuming, he would go into a temporary state somewhat like a 

coma for about twelve to fourteen hours. In the early times after he discovered Brockeulum, he 

would often consume it, which he later found out that the excessive consumption led to random 

asphyxiation attacks, which slowed down his tasks. He later learned that consuming Brockeulum 

should be left as a last resort, to avoid the random asphyxiation.

   Back to the beginning, James reminisced on his past years as a normal civilian. He spent quite 

a while on his front porch reminiscing, when he first sensed a disturbance in the wind, then a loud 

noise. A considerably irregular loud noise. He recognized it as a large tree falling, which was odd 

to James, since he knew that for any animal of the area or the mild winds he was well accustomed 

to, it would be very difficult to cause a tree to fall; if not, impossible. Also, James knew that no 

natural disasters had recently happened that would weaken the stability of the tree, as he would 

easily recognize one. James decided to investigate the area of where the tree fell, hoping that he 

would find a camp that would belong to someone or some people who was or were stranded, and 

accquaint that person or those people.

   James spent a little over a day, which a portion he spent sleeping in a temporary shelter, 

searching for any indication of a human living in the area. He couldn't even find the remains of the 

fallen tree. Feeling defeated, he decided that his whole search in attempt to find another human, 

was in vain, and began to head back to his cabin. However, on his way back to his cabin, he 

found the area of the fallen tree, and noticed that only the stump of the tree was remaining, and 

the trunk of the tree had been collected by someone. James also noticed a large ax obscured by 

the forest floor. Through further investigation, he found the blade and handle of the ax separated, 

and assumed it was broken through cutting through the bark of the tree. With the feeling of hope 

relighted in him, he decided again to continue searching for indications of a living human.

   After searching for another three or four hours, James still couldn't find any items or signs 

indicating if someone had recently been present in the area, except for a structure that looked 

somewhat like a campfire. Even then, the structure didn't look like it would serve as an effective 

campfire. Despite this, James was still determined that someone else was near him. The broken 

ax he   found beside the stump of the fallen tree served as evidence which made the idea of 

another human living near him seem plausible. As more hours passed, he sighted at first what 

seemed to be distortion in the air, but then appeared as a cloud of smoke, quite a distance away 

from where he was. James wasn't sure whether the cloud of smoke was from a campfire or a 

forest fire. Regardless, he headed towards the source of the smoke.

   James kept following the smoke, but stopped when he found a problem. He found that the 

smoke was emerging from an island that was huge, but was separated from James, by a 

flowing river. He couldn't simply swim across the river, as he would be easily swept away by it. 

From his point of view, there were two options he could chose to cross the river. There was a 

large branch of a tree that was barely the width of the river, intended to be placed across the 

river, forming a makeshift bridge. There were also a set of stones placed almost evenly, which 

formed a line across the river. He chose to leap from the stones to get across the river, as the 

branch seemed flimsy, and may have not been able to support his weight.

   James spent at least fifteen minutes to cross the river, leaping across from the five 

conveniently placed stones. The stones were shaped with a pointed top, which was hard 

enough for him to balance on each of them. To make things more difficult, there was an 

extremely strong wind which often caused James to stumble in his steps, which made him 

almost fall off the stones. By the time he had crossed the river, the smoke had already 

disappeared. He became worried, since he was basically left wandering without a guide for 

him to follow, but about ten minutes later he found at least five pairs of footprints on the soil, 

which were still recent at the time. James was completely sure that he was going to find some 

people. He was just wondering if those people were willing to accept him as someone friendly.

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