The treck back took a while as Avra was observing his surroundings and Making sure nothing tracks him, and nothing was too close, as being the surprise guest in a hunt when the only food consumed today was left over boar meat from the night before.
Either way the treck back to the cave was uneventful and slow due to his carefulness. When he arrived in the main space of the cave, Avra set down the deer skin pouch holding the deer meat and set to making a fire at his makeshift griddle.
After the fire started and Avra fed it enough twigs and such to survive without dieing out too quickly, Avra placed a piece of meat on the stone surface.
The meat was cooking on the griddle, the fat releasing grease and juices as it cooked, self seasoning in a way.
When the meat was turned over to the other side the meat smelled so tantalizingly delicious that he almost ate it right then and there, but he waited for when it was fully cooked.
Instead deciding to distract himself by looking at the fire, its beautiful movement drawing him in, like the first time he saw it. He could feel gears turning in his soul, but they weren't connected, unable to power each other so they couldn't function correctly.
While he watched the fire he continued cooking and eating the fully cooked meat, when he was full, he set aside the food for the morning and sat back and watched the fire. When it finally died down Avra snapped out of it and didn't care to think about it anymore.
He decided to organize the cave, organizing the sticks and twigs, moving the makeshift griddle to a better space, and his makeshift stone knife in a space where he slept, which was a naturally raised stone platform.
Deciding to work on some quality of life before dark, Avra decided to go near the soft side of the cave floor, which was near the sleeping platform and started digging, he carried the dirt out by the handfuls. When he had a sufficient diameter and depth he deciddd to compress the soil by stomping on it, so when he added water it wouldn't get as much dirt in it.
After finishing that he moved to the platform sat on it cross legged and starred into space, thinking about what to do next.
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