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When the creature, who called itself Gabo, appeared before Sav, he simply stopped in his tracts. He was not afraid of the creature before him, for death was not a fear of his. Still, Sav was not too inclined to instantly put an end to his life. When the creature spoke, Sav listened and studied the creature's many features. The purple scales with a distinctive and new shine, and the control that the creature had over the world itself.

Then Gabo flew off. In his wake, Gabo gave Sav many useful materials. Wood from trees in its natural form works well as both a fuel and a building material, but also provided good amounts of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. From carbon, strong building materials can be made, or when mixed with oxygen and hydrogen, super-fuels can be synthesized. Even carbon-nanotubes (CNT) can be made from carbon itself, giving it nearly infinite applications. Stone, on the other hand, was a hard to separate mix-mash of elements, namely light metals and non-metals. Sav would be lucky if a 1x1x1 meter's worth of stone gave him five micro-chips, assuming he could find.

Sav looked ahead. He could see the island that Gabo had mentioned, but Sav would not be able to do this on foot. No, he needed to bring back technologies from his times to handle this, the closest one being CNT tech. The trees provided much of what was needed for it, but it was still a challenge. How would he power the holobench long enough to make a full sized raft to cross the small body of water between him and the island? How would he gather more materials to improve his protection from the monsters Gabo spoke of? The first step to the answer was finding a place to stay.

Walking down the path of stone and trees, Sav found a cave large enough for him to begin setting up in. Within the moment of its discovery, the location of the cave was well noted in Sav's mind. He would have to make a map of some sort later.

With a place to settle chosen, Sav walked towards the densest portion of trees that he could see. Using his weight to snap the branches off of the trees, Sav quickly obtained enough to reach the maximum that he could carry in one load. As the night began to descend, Sav had 7 loads worth of sticks. Going back into his cave, Sav built a small fire and plugged his holobench into his pistol.

Throwing some sticks into the working area of the holobench, Sav assigned the machine its task, to create a CNT tripod to hold his pistol near, but not in, a fire.