Chapter 16: The very hungry baby

Chapter 16: The very hungry baby

"You, like the little catterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future.

Eric CarleThe inaugural upload of this chapter took place via N0v3l-B1n.

I'm so very hungry! At 1 o'clock, I had one helping. At 2 o'clock, I had two helpings. By 3 o'clock, I had two helpings and went back for seconds. I don't know about eating apples, pears, plums, strawberries and oranges. But I would if I could. Unfortunately I have no teeth yet!

Still nearly constantly swaddled.

My mother seems to be a seamstress of some sort. After feeding and swaddling, I'm bundled up in a box and left at my mother's feet as she spins and weaves the cloth. My sister is busy washing and carding the wool between looking in on me. She appears fascinated with my face, as that is all that she can see of me!

Still wrapped in swaddling left in a box!

This leaves me with a lot of nap time in my little box. I suppose most babies would need all these naps between feedings but probably due to my mother putting all my stats into Vitality and giving me a health of 970 and a stamina of 403, I'm suprisingly not at all that sleepy.

But other than wriggling around like a catterpillar I'm still limited in my mobility.

I always hum along a little with my mother's singing before pretending to fall back to sleep and I am using the levels I am getting in humming to move my decoy status along. Just in case anyone is checking. It might be paranoia but better safe than sorry. Besides it's not paranoia if they are really out to get you and who knows if they are or aren't.

Now that they think I'm asleep it's time to dive back into my mind fortress and reassess where I am and how I'm moving forward figuratively. It won't be long till I'm dragged back into my body by a stomach that requires constant refills.

Name: Kai

Level: 2 Experience: (200/400)

Health: 200/200 Stamina: 133/133 Mana 100/100

Vitality: 20

Endurance: 10

Strength: 10

Dexterity: 10

Senses: 10

Mind: 10

Clarity: 10

Magic: 10

Free Points: 10

Skills: Humming (Lv 3)

Skill experience:200

Dragged back to the room by my rumbling stomach.

It's 4 o'clock.

Time for breakfast, brunch, elevenses, lunch, tea, supper, dinner who knows.

I'm hungry again.

As I'm raised out of my box for another filling, my eyes alight on a line of ants walking across the corner of the room.

I wonder, would they count as combat experience?

Nom, nom.

True Status

Name: Kai

Level: 8 Experience: 14,310 / 51,200 Age: 1 month 0 week 2 days 16 hr 0 min

Health: 980/980 Stamina: 413/413 Mana: 250/250

Vitality: 98

Endurance: 13

Strength: 13

Dexterity: 13

Senses: 30

Mind: 88

Clarity: 24

Magic: 25

Free Points: 0

Skills: Time sense (LV 12) Listening (LV 11) Meditation (LV 11) Sense Mana (LV 11) Swimming (LV 10) Eavesdrop (LV 11) Memorisation (LV 11) Echolocation (LV 11) Recall (Lv11) Composition (Lv 11) Mind fortress (Lv 11) Expel Mana (Lv 8) Absorb Mana (Lv 8) Mana Drain (Lv 1) Pain tolerance (Lv 1) Humming (Lv 3)

Skill experience: 10,100

Origin experience: 2000

Combat experience: 0