"Ha ha ha"
'Deep breaths, Deeps breaths, I need to slow down my heart rate' I press my hands over the gash wound on the side of my stomach as I hide behind a pillar.
'I shouldn't be able to find me, right?' Sweat drips down my brows as cling my body even deeper to the pillar, as if trying to make it swallow me whole.
'I need to get back to camp, i-i need to live through this, my sister is waiting for me'
~STOMP~
The feeling of dread suddenly came back. My eyes widen as I cover my mouth and pray that I'm not heard. 'I want to live, no, I have to live. I refuse to die here'
'Please, please, please, please, please' I bite my lips in anguish.
I hear the noise fading away 'Has the creature left? Can I come out now?' I stay for a few more minutes, listening for anything signaling it's returning. I hear nothing.
Slowly I turn my head to look behind the pillar, nothing. "Haaaaaaaa"
I collapse unto the floor in relief as I open my bag to take out a map. The map was one showing when exactly I was and how I could get back to camp.
"It's not took far away, thank goodness." I rise up to my feet and begin my journey back home.
Following the map's instructions, I make my way through the dungeon, avoid monsters as I go. "Help me"
I pause
"Help me~"
I look around to see where the voice is coming from when I see something glittering from the corner of my eye.
'Should I take a look? Someone could be hurt after all. Then again, it could just be raiders and their trickery or even a monster imitating a human voice, I've seen plenty of those…I should leave it and just head back to camp, better not to take any chances.'
As I continue to walk, I hear the voice again, "help me"
" Curse me and my weak heart" I walk towards the voice.
As I reach the sound, I look to see who it was.… 'it's a kid,about 11 or 12 give or take, severely malnourished too, looks like they died in a hospital since their wearing a hospital gown.'
"Help me, I haven't eaten in days"
"Sigh"
I Carry the kid over my shoulders and continue walking, I doesn't take long before I see the camp, a safe zone from all these monsters. "Finally."
"Kora's back!" I hear some shout in the distance. 'Ah, it's go to be home' I finally cross the boundary and enter the camp.
"Kora, how was the hunt?" "Kora, did you get anything good?" "Kora, who the kid?" "Kora" "kora"
"Enough!"
"Kora just came back and is tired, she shouldn't be suddenly bombarded with question. Let her rest." The crowd that gathered diminishes until it's only me, the kid, the the person that stood up for me. My sweet baby sister, asura.
"Kora, are you ok?"
"I'm fine"
"That's good, who's the kid?"
"I found them on the verge of passing out on my way back and decided to take them back with me."
"Let's get both of you to the medbay them."
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Ending fun fact
Main character age: 11-12
Kora's age: 31
Asura's age: 28