After some time of recuperation
He took off his leather jacket and clothes,
After taking off all of his clothes, he examined his injuries.
His head was mostly fine, which was a miracle considering he was hit in the head in the middle of raging waters.
There were at most scratches on his body, which was odd considering that he had been caught in a tsunami wave, the debris and scrap should have destroyed his body or at least injured him severely.
But he wasn't, and there was still a lingering layer of air around his body acting like a cushion that had helped him avoid most of the danger.
But it was still painful.
He thought about what to do next.
Then he concentrated his mind, which was difficult considering that he was in a dizzy state and his entire body was hurting.
But he still willed himself forward.
Next, he imagined a flowing current of water and chanted the spell:
"Apah Pravah."
A tiny stream of water began flowing.
Although he was concentrating with all his will, he still pushed his body forward and stepped into the stream to wash off his wounds.
He prioritized cleaning his wounds and clothes because he knew the horrors of infection so he knew the importance of cleanliness and how wounds could become infected.
But still, there wasn't much he could do.
Now he started to regret not carrying alcohol with him.
But he had never liked alcohol, and he had never thought that he would end up in such peril.
But what can we do about life?
It's simply the way it is.
You may plan for many different scenarios, yet you can never truly predict what will happen.
You can only do your best with what you have, so he did just that.
He cleaned both his clothes and himself.
Next, he looked around and gathered things like wood and rocks.
He picked up a big rock and spent a long time carving it into a bowl.
This process was made easier by using basic thermodynamics.
After two or three hours, a crude bowl was finally made.
Next, he arranged some rocks to make a fireplace for heating water.
Then he took some water from the stream and poured it into the bowl.
When the water was hot enough, he drank it.
He couldn't drink directly from the stream because it flowed over dirt, so there was a chance of contamination.
Next, he boiled the water again and used it to rinse his clothes and wounds, disinfecting them to the best of his ability.
He checked what he still had with him.
He had a machete, a water bag, a pouch of jerky, his clothes, and a rope.
These were some of the most basic things a person needed to survive in the wilderness of old times.
After preparing himself, he went to a nearby tree and cut some branches with his hatchet.
He made a comfortable bed and went to sleep because he truly wasn't in the right condition to travel with all those scratches.
Satya slept for many hours and woke up the next morning.
Now he was feeling much better.
He ate some jerky.
Next, he tried to figure out where he had come from.
For this, he came up with a plan.
He took a stick and a stone.
Then he placed the stone on the ground and chose a direction to walk while marking his path with the stick so he would know the way back.
He walked a thousand steps, then examined the soil and even dug some up.
He repeated this process in every direction.
He checked the soil in each direction and moved toward the one where the soil was the wettest because he had come with a tsunami.
So he knew that wetter soil meant there had been more water there.
He took his belongings and headed toward the moist soil, hoping to at least find the great river so he could follow its current back home.
As he was finally moving forward, a thought popped up in his head, he remembered his parents, and worry filled his heart.
But he steadied himself and said:
"Living a life full of joy and happiness, yet the will of heaven was otherwise, so I was separated from my parents,"
Satya had been pondering his philosophical side to get rid of his boredom and loneliness, because wandering through a vast forest alone is not easy on the human mind.
So Satya focused on ward so he would be able to handle every situation that came his way.
Or maybe he was simply thinking all the time to distract himself from worrying about his parents and loved ones.
Even Satya did not know the answer to that.
Many times in our lives, when we do or think certain things, we ourselves do not know why we are doing them.
It is but a self-defense mechanism of the unconscious mind.
There are many ways in which our brain protects us, yet we do not notice most of them because they feel like second nature to us.
So Satya was the same.
He was preparing himself to go through a hellish journey with no one else to depend on but himself.
He was going against nature itself to survive.
Humans have gone against nature throughout all of history in order to survive.
But that alone is not the solution.
The true solution is to use everything at your disposal, even if it is the strength of your enemy.
To use another's strength for one's own benefit is the true sign of intelligence.
Many hours passed in such philosophical ponderings, yet nothing changed.
As the pain in his body slowly faded and his awareness of his surroundings sharpened, a feeling rose in his gut—
something around him was moving.
But whenever he turned to look, there was nothing there except the same giant trees he had been seeing for the last several hours.
He found a place to rest and eat his fill.
He summoned water and fire to cook his jerky.
After eating, he began to meditate.
First, to clear his head and focus on survival.
Second, to find the source of the strange feeling in his gut.
After meditating for about twenty minutes, Satya finally cleared his mind of unnecessary thoughts and focused entirely on sensing his surroundings.
Far away in the distance, something heavy was moving.
At the same time, he sensed that even near him, only thirty steps away, something was moving slowly.
He was frightened, yet he remained composed, pretending that he could not sense it.
That way, when the moment came, he could take down whatever was near him by surprise.
But he also felt confused.
He could not sense any killing intent or hostility from the thing.
The only intent he felt from it was the intent to move unseen.
After about an hour, he finally noticed that the thing had stopped moving.
So he ended his meditation and continued on his journey.
After walking for several more hours, he noticed a tree in the distance that looked oddly similar to the one whose branches he had cut earlier to make his bed.
[Is it the tree from before or am I just seeing things]
Satya drank some purified water from his water bag.
When he looked again, the tree no longer seemed the same.
Maybe I am simply tired. I should rest for today.
He cut some branches from another tree and made a bed.
Then he started a fire and cooked some jerky.
After eating, he fell into thought.
[Now that I think about it, it's pretty odd that I haven't seen any animals.
I can hear insects, but I haven't actually seen a single one.
This whole forest is strange.
And most of the trees are the same height, and almost all of them look alike.
It's eerie, to say the least,]
Then, as the last rays of sunlight faded beyond the horizon, Satya noticed something in the distance that he had not seen before—
the rock he had placed at the start.
{Lost in an endless forest
Something lurking in the dark
Moving unseen from the eyes
The forest is as a cage
Built of the heart}