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54. Lost in the Forest (3)

After Kiki finished telling the story, Lili's whole body was goosebumps but was very excited to feel the experience.  Then, it became a proper bedtime for Lili and Kiki.

When she opened her eyes the next morning, Lili saw Kiki repeat the work she had done the morning before.  Kiki rekindled the extinguished fire and prepared their breakfast.  Kiki never woke Lili up to help her.  He took care of Lili as if Lili was a child.

Within a few minutes they were able to enjoy breakfast.  The rest of yesterday's game.  Lili had always complained that she hated watery soft foods, but the complaint did not stop her, she still finished it.

Lili and Kiki left again.  Kiki led at a fast pace.  Lili admired his toughness.

Lili and Kiki roamed the forest, walking through rough terrain for no less than ten hours each day, wading through rivers, tracing mud, struggling through trees.

“Be careful, here is a thorny bush,” Kiki said.  “Be careful, do not let you scratched the branch sticking out it.”

That's just ridiculous.  Kiki who first walked then he who felt hit by branches or scratched.

During their journey that day, the forest became increasingly narrow.  As they approached the hilly area, their bodies were already more than sweating.  The weather is very hot.  Thousands of butterflies are brightly colored, yellow, orange, blue, green, purple, alight or hovering near the surface of the sand.

Their wings flap.  At Lili's request, Kiki walked straight into the middle of the animals.  It was beautiful when they flew.

Butterfly fly.  Kiki is wrapped in a cloud of color.  What an amazing view.  Lili found a butterfly warming itself in a rock.  Lili bowed silently and watched him with a smile.  These butterflies have translucent wings combined with yellow stripes.

Kiki leaned over as she walked, her eyes fixed to the ground.  Lili thought she was looking for butterflies, but she said, “Look, tapir trail. Mother and one child.  This explains the number of butterflies here.  The two animals must have come down to drink from the river, then piss in the sand.  These butterflies are eyeing minerals in their urine.”

Then they started climbing.  Soon they were flooded with sweat.  At the sight of one large green fruit near Lili's feet, Lili shouted to Kiki.  Kiki was happy to see Lili's findings.  It was a forest apple.

“Let's find the tree,” said Kiki.

Not long after they found the tree.  It turned out that the fruit was too high while the trunk was too slippery to climb.

“We cut it down,” said Lili.

Kiki immediately showed her opposite attitude.  He thought it was absolutely not right to kill a tree just to get its fruit.

“What about the other living creatures that happen to pass by here and need food too?”

“Now we are here,” says Lili, “and we are starving.”

Kiki patiently cut the tree trunk with a sharp-edged stone like a machete.  A moment later the tree fell down accompanied by a rumbling sound, while breaking the branches of the tree next to it.

They also pounced on the fruit and managed to collect quite a lot.  But, it turns out that not a single fruit can be eaten because all are still green and the inside is hard.  According to Lili can still bring the fruits and eat them later, but Kiki is against it.  The burden of carrying it was not worth the wages.

Climbing the steep mountainside takes five grueling hours that feel very long.  Kiki shows how to get water from bamboo shoots that grow abundantly on the mountain.  Between the bamboo stem joints are usually formed a little reserve of water that is safe to drink.  He slashed one bud with that sharp stone.  Water is flowing too.

They need to rest before they continue their journey.  Lilies rest a sore back on one of the bamboo stems, but the object was unable to withstand the weight of Lili so he lengkang backward.  Large and long thorns sticking out between the bamboo stems.  When Lili fell, she hit one of them and stuck it more than half an inch deep on her wrist.

They quickly went down the mountain.  The road down securam the road up.  Apparently Kiki did know the direction, after reaching a flat surface, they actually encountered a narrow stream of water.

They're wading through this stream.  Little by little the flow is getting faster.  The scenery was so stunning that they took time to stay quiet and enjoy it.

When they arrived near one turn of the river, they surprised a little slacker slow loris who was drinking.  He's too slow to run.  Kiki saw it first.  He ran after the slow loris while shouting happily, “WE EAT AGAIN.”

Without fear Kiki grabbed the slow-necked sloth and lifted it.  The animal slapped Kiki's hand clumsily but only hit the air.

“It's a shame to waste,” said Kiki as long as Lili looked on with an anxious look.

Kiki threw the slow loris to the ground, took out his stone machete from his belt and raised it overhead.  Lili turned her face in horror.  Kiki put the stone machete to the nape of the slow loris.  The animal breathed its last.

“Finally we get hunted animals,” said Kiki proudly while tying the carcass of a slow loris.

Not an hour later, they heard loud screams.  “Sssh, sshh.”

“There are monkeys coming this way,” Kiki said.

A family of black monkeys appeared on the top of the trees.  They swung from tree to tree like acrobatics.

Kiki threw them.  A monkey hit the ground.  Kiki ran up and threw him back at close range.  The monkey let out a choking sound.  Kiki smashed the wood into the monkey's head until the prey budged.

“The injured monkey can be very vicious,” Kiki said.

The monkey was a child.

Kiki proposed that they make another resting place, some kind of tent again.  It was not yet dark, but the work awaited was overwhelming.  These animals should be cleaned before cooking.  They choose high, dry soil.

Lili couldn't come to work because her hands were injured, so just sat down to watch Kiki build a primitive tent.

After the primitive tent stood up, Kiki started skinning the slow lorises.  It's a difficult task because the knife is not sharp enough.  Not a real knife but a sharp-edged stone.  Taking care of monkeys is easier.  Kiki threw the animal into the fire intact, the feathers immediately burned.

What a disgusting sight, the monkey face shriveled, his teeth and nose were very white, his eye sockets were creepy, his hands and feet were human-like.

Lily could not stand up and watch.  Kiki immediately bowed near the river to clean the guts and meticulously cleaned the carcass.  Lili helped him cut up the meat.  Kiki poked the meat of the slow loris with a green bar like a twig and arranged it near the fire.

“Eat night we slow.  Monkey meat later we asapi to carry,” said Kiki.

After dinner Kiki tied a small dome shape of green branches near the fire and arranged the pieces of monkey flesh inside, legs, hands, body, head, and tail.

“We smoke all night, so tomorrow morning it's good and dry,” said Kiki.