Chapter 1, animals are not that different from humans
I put on clothes of one of the dead musicians and came to the closest human village. That's where my real adventure started. I walked into one of the houses without knocking, at that time I didn't know it was impolite. I looked around and found five humans or more. They didn't seem to mind me. I took a minute to think how to talk and I muttered out "Would you like to play music and entertain the world?" to a human and he seemed to understand because he answered that no way. Saddened I decided to travel alone. To the south there was another village, but I decided to travel north. Suddenly night came and I remembered what happened to the poor musicians who traveled at night. I rushed as fast as possible back to the town trying not to make any noise. I came back safe to my starting place. I entered a random house, everyone was sleeping, so I decided to try my skills at playing the tolmo, however there was a teen not sleeping, he was listening to my music. I asked him if he wanted to join me and he agreed. Cheered up I traveled from home to home playing to people awake and asking them to come, they all agreed. In the morning they all left wit me not saying goodbye to their still sleeping families, all of them charmed by my music. When leaving the town I decided to sit down by a bridge and play with music a bit. So I sat there all the way till night composing.
The next morning we left this village to never see it again. We traveled north, I didn't fear the night with the new four companions. Soon I found out leaving the warm village might have been a mistake. We were starving and dehydrated after days of walking over frozen rivers. Soon, we found a dwarf fortress. In hope of finding water and food we decided to visit it. The image hunts me till this day. The field was a mess, there were bodies everywhere and from inside of the fort came a horrible stench so we did not go in. On top of the hill the fortress was dug in laid a pile of 200 or more bodies. On top of the huge pile sat a single dwarf, grief could be seen in his eyes. We decided to leave him alone. Still without water and food we traveled south where the snow has already melted. After two more days of traveling night and day without sleep we found water. What came next is impossible to forget. Around the river there were 20 or more boars. My companies literally jumped onto the animals and I with them. We didn't have food for days and there was food placed in front of us, though it was still alive. We fought the boars with our bare hands, I killed one using just my tolmo. We ate the two boars we killed in no time, without even cooking them before. That's when I decided that the situation can make an animal out of the most civilized creature.
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