Washed Ashore

Ugh... I woke up coughing and spitting a mouthful of sand. I was feeling thirsty but to my utter dismay I had nothing but water for as was as I could see and couldn't drink any of it all thanks to its salinity.

Chief!

Is that you?

I heard a lady almost screaming just behind me followed by some curious footsteps attracted to an insignificant commotion. I turned around with whatever strength I had and witnessed a few gasps and some pitiful gazes. I could see few lovely ladies all with a same faces, as if they were clones. They all had confused, shocked and disappointed expression because they just took me for someone else for a moment.

'Wa... water'

I asked them for some water and after they exchanged a few glances they brought me some pink nectar as they nodded at me with a kind smile. I had asked for water not for some weird sake but at this point anything was fine as long as it could satisfy my thirst.

It was really an exceptional moment of my life as with just a few sip of that heavenly nectar, all my bruises were gone and my body was overflowing with energy. I felt rejuvenated. Now that I was not feeling thirsty at all, my stomach made a wierd gurgling noise. Which was embarrassing for me but sure made those wonderful ladies giggle. They showed me the way to a campfire. I helped myself with few carrots as sweet and juicy as watermellon. Ofcourse it may be an exaggeration but I had already lost my count for the days I starved.

I looked around the area for a while, it was a lovely sight to behold, a beach in front and hut in the centre. A broken structure which looked like some small castle surrounded by rocks. Few other buildings that I couldn't get anything about them but one thing for sure. Everything was automated like some high-tech town. Just that it wasn't in a condition to be called that as it had just a small cannon as its only defence. I talked to one of the ladies which was then I got to know that she was one of the villager. It was all thanks to those villagers that I could understand what was going around me.

She told me that the villagers here never age and that their chief had gone out on a voyage hundreds of years from now and never returned. It was me, the first outsider with no ill intent that they met. Just because they don't have a chief, they sit idle the whole day consuming elixir and dozing off anywhere they want. All they do in a whole day is to go to some bush or a stone or a tree and clap a few times and pray for their chief to return. Without anyone to guide or protect them, they have become a common target for goblins and other villages. Who just let treat them as some kind of life stock.

I decided to help them out for as long as I was staying under their kindness. I am a man with dignity and can't be a freeloader you see?

I asked if I could be of some help to them but they denied instead told me to use anything available here as my wish, as everything collected by then soon be looted by invaders anyways. It was sad to look at their state but not being able to do anything for them.

One day when I was roaming in the village I saw a box stuck in bush, when I cleared the way and opened it, I found it filled with green shiny rocks which after my crash course I knew was the rarest mineral to come by around here and were called as 'gems'.

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