Chapter 34 Section thirty-four

It was dusk when I woke up again.Immediately, I sat up straight, and I cursed lowly at the thought that I let the whole day slip by like this.My eyes scanned the sky, but the sun had set behind the trees and I knew it would be dark soon. "Nicolas? Ilo?" I just looked around casually at first, but when I found that they were not nearby, I became anxious. "Nikola! Ilo!" I raised my voice, and my voice was trembling, because I accidentally slept for too long, and my legs were unsteady when I got up from the ground. I was about to shout again when I suddenly spotted them, snuggling up to a fallen tree trunk not far away and sleeping soundly.The heart I raised finally fell, and I smiled.I was relieved to see that they were all right, but at the same time felt a little doubt why they fell asleep during the day too.

My first instinct was to be skeptical about what we were eating, but that was quickly dispelled because I woke up and felt nothing bad.Obviously, we were just exhausted physically and mentally.Still, I'm annoyed at wasting precious hours of the day. It will be dark soon, and I am worried that whether it is the children or myself, the physical and mental fatigue recovered during the day will not be able to sleep at night.Should I wake the kids up now so they might get sleepy later?Or just let them sleep and hope they don't wake up until morning?In the end, I chose to let the two little ones go to sleep, and I took advantage of the little light left to go away for a while, to find some leaves to serve as food, so that we could safely pass the long night.

Soon it was too dark to move safely.The temperature dropped at night, and I leaned next to my sleeping partner, sharing each other's body temperature under the makeshift blanket that was used as a coat. The horror images from the previous night gathered in my mind again, so I had no choice but to comfort myself that after resting for such a long time, our physical strength will definitely recover a lot, and tomorrow we will be able to make full use of the light of the day to find that small village in the dense forest up.I closed my eyes in the darkness of the forest and tried to think of pleasant things.