Chapter 25: The Hut Again
Alex
My eyes opened slowly. The first thing I saw were the rough wooden beams of a ceiling high above me. For a long, quiet moment, I actually thought that I was dead. I thought the cold had finally taken me and I was in another world.
The air in the room smelled like dust, old pine, and the cold ground. A faint, steady ache pulsed through my entire body. It felt deep and heavy. It felt as if I had been broken apart into small pieces and then stitched back together by someone who didn't know how to do it correctly. When I tried to shift my weight, a sharp pain flared in my knees. It was so intense that it stole the breath right out of my lungs.
I looked around the small room. It was the hunter’s hut. I was back in the same hut where I felt relaxed.
The strang
