Getting ready

You stir at the first rays of dawn, waking to the wolf still nestled against you. Sitting up you see the bright sunlight glistening into the cave. Hearing the pup shifting to life, you look down to see him look up to you with sad eyes. He yawns, and lets out a little puppy bark. You pat his head, happy to see that he's well rested too. You stand up, stretching, ready to start your day as well. You wrap yourself in the giant dire wolf's pelt and walk outside in front of the entrance, taking in your surroundings. It looks as if the snow has already begun to melt from last nights blizzard. Your eyes look at the creek to see that the melting seemed to have affected it the most, doubling it's size and making it flow much more rapidly than before, though the current is nowhere near fast enough to be dangerous. You look out further and see nothing familiar. You must have run much further than you thought. It's a good thing you know your way. You planned ahead, knowing that you would get lost if you didn't think before hand. You remembered to follow the sunset so that if you had to find your way back you would know how.

You feel a breeze run up your blanket of furs and remember the first task you must attend to: Clothes. You go back inside to find the dead deer still lying there, no longer warm. Rot is already starting to set in on its open wounds. You examined the damage to see if it's usable for clothing. You find a huge bite on the deer's neck from the spinal cord to the jugular, which most likely killed it instantly. You see a small opening in the stomach where the pup must of started eating away at it. You think you must of arrived quite soon after the mother dragged it in, because there is no sign of her bite marks anywhere else other than the neck. Seeing that it is salvageable you start to carve at the deer's hide.

After about 2 hours or so you have completely gutted and sorted every part you can use of the animal. Even setting aside the guts and other parts of the animal for the pup to eat. You have completed your first task, sort of that is. Being that you are 6'7, the deer could only supply enough hide to make knee high leggings. When you where tending to this though, you remembered to cut long strips of sinew for use as a bowstring when it's dry.

After hanging the hide and other things to dry, you decide to gather some wood to speed up the drying process and warm you after you clean up in the creek. You step outside once more.