What you eat

I have been piking more mushrooms, I found some mushrooms that I don't know what they do. Would be pretty embarrassing to survive ten years of the new world to just die to an extra funky fungus.

I ate some to be sure. I feel fine. 

I also found a black pond. Not sure what is up with that. I threw a rock at it to be sure it's safe. The black pond started boiling the moment the rock landed in it. It freaked me a bit out, I threw more rocks in it from a distance to if it would do anything. i think I just pissed off a pond.

I  found something else that might be concerning, a withered berry bush. I haven't found a single berry for the entirety of spring and now a bush that I know grows berries just died. Something is happening and I'm not sure if it is for the better.  The wild berries I found in the forest were all the sweetness that was left in my life. Now I have to steal even more fruits. 

Well, maybe I should stop taking the apples from the fools. Melanie told me that the fools themselves stopped eating the apples, after I asked why she told me that apples are a autumn fruit. They shouldn't grow in spring yet. But the trees somehow have fully developed apples by now. Yeah, they might be smart not to eat supernaturally fast growing apples. 

I'm pretty sure that I ate a lot of those apples last summer too. Yet I feel fine, again. Maybe they are being paranoid? I'm probably being unreasonable, unlike the old world we no longer have the means to treat the majority of illnesses. 

Now that I think about it, I never really needed medication in the old world. I became sick sometimes and I was given medicine. But I always slept any disease off. The only medicine I really took were mandatory vaccines. I only ever needed medical attention when I broke my arm once. I probably just never caught anything serious.

Today Melanie started grilling some chunks of meat before I even came back to our camp, they were boneless cuts so I couldn't tell from what creature the meat is. It tasted like pork so I guess we are still eating boar. I also roasted some of the mushrooms I found over the campfire but Melanie didn't want to eat them. She didn't say anything about the mushrooms but she just ate the meat with water and nothing else. 

Hopefully she doesn't go back to only eating meat again, vegetation is crucial to have a balanced and healthy diet. 

While we are on diet. the new world diet is actually pretty healthy if I think about it. Meat and veggies straight out of nature with plenty of water to keep us hydrated... the taste is a different matter. I would jump at any chance of getting any kind of seasoning or spice. Much less sugar. Melanie told me that there is a beekeeper but he uses the honey to trade it for food from the Kelts. 

For dinner we had white meat, it tasted like fish. She refused to tell me from where the meat comes. She refused to eat the mushrooms again. I also brought some apples this time, I will actually go crazy if I only eat meat and shrooms. The apples had a soft texture but they were otherwise fine, Melanie refused to eat them as well. 

Besides, my diet might not be the best. Especially if I look at... I'm gonna call it stool. It always feels so awkward when the matter of feces comes up. I'm not gonna describe it  here, dear reader, I'm just gonna say that I'm concerned that there may be something wrong with in my intestines or I ate something wrong. Again, we don't have the means to treat something serious. Maybe they have something in the flooded city camp, but would they give it to some random scavenger? 

That is why being part of a faction is so important, they might treat Melanie but they wouldn't treat me. I'm not sure if she could even bully them into treating me, i wouldn't want her to anyway. 

She has been like this in the old world as well, always standing up for me even when i wasn't bothered by the situation. I still don't get why she has been going through all of that trouble just for me. I haven't called her my best friend since the fall of the old world, I mean, she kind of is my only friend in the new world. 

Is that why? Because I'm the only person from the old world she still has? 

She probably has made new nomad friends by now anyway, it has been ten years.      

It has been ten years.

I am tired. 

She didn't hum her lullaby tonight. 

I couldn't sleep.