Chapter 2 Iewah the Tree (2/2)

He had never been a lucky person to begin with, but so happened which reminded that to him as heavily as a sound slap to the face This tiht underneath his feet

His atte at all, turned out to be useless as he started falling

snap snap snap

One branch after the other started snapping under Daniel's weight, slowing his descent Yet Daniel didn't feel as good about it, as each and every one of those branches had hit his body like a solid kick

As Daniel thought he would fall the whole height of the tree and into his death, a larger branch stopped his fall, offering him a hard surface to land harshly upon The land was a painful one, yet he survived Overall, he felt lucky that the branch was there

After checking his body, Daniel realized that none of those snapping sounds came from his bones, and that the only injuries he had, were various bruises and so the bones of his shoulders and lower back, he decided to get his bearings, and assess his situation

He had fallen for fifty e covered part of the tree

”That wasn't so bad It saved ain” Joked Daniel by hi his clothes and rubbing the sore bruises on his body, he looked around for a safe branch to use to cli , so, he decided to walk on the branch he was standing on towards the trunk, and climb the thick bark all the way down, or at least, until he would be able to find a better alternative

It was at this , just a bit more than a rapefruit-sized fruit was shi+ning dimly It looked very similar to the miniature of a lunar eclipse

The words of the oldinside Daniel's mind, ”not just a simple fruit”

Curiosity took over him, so he extended his ar for the fruit Of course, his bad luck kicked in as he realized that the part of the branch he would need to stand on in order to reach the fruit, was too thin to withstand his whole weight

It took his around the branch, and slowly advance towards the fruit When he found hiht position, he reached for the fruit once ertips from the fruit's smooth surface

He could have reached the fruit if he let go of the branch with both hands, but he would lose his balance with the slightest gust of wind

Nevertheless, he didn't want to give it up He was so close to it ”Come on! da his clothes to stick tightly on his skin

This went on for a couple o of the branch, and rab the fruit with both hands

Daniel found little tiht after, was the very fa sound of wood

snap His unfortunate descent sped up once again

As he fell froainst any other branch he found on his path The closer he got the lower part of the tree, the more branches there were that could slow his descent, but they were also thicker

After crashi+ng heavily against half a dozen thick branches, he felt the pain of his bones snapping one after the other whenever he ca for hi, the branches of the tree suddenly started toheaps of leaves, they intercepted Daniel's fall

At the same time, the roots of the tree started to crawl froiant earthworht underneath Daniel's falling body, right beneath the leafy part of the tree

He had reached the ground unconscious The grapefruit-like fruit stuck tightly to his palm since the moment it had been picked from the tree

An old old eyes started to shi+ne lightly, along with the fruit that Daniel was holding on to A gentle sain

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When Daniel woke up, the first thing he noticed, was that it was late evening

He got up and looked at his body in confusion Confusion turned into shock when he noticed that none of his injuries were there be it the shallow scratches and the sore bruises fro his senses None of them was there anymore

He also noticed That the fruit was nowhere to be seen