Rainsford took one look at the bed that was beside the two and decided that he would be the last man standing and he would the one sleeping in that bed tonight. Without thinking he quickly threw struck the general with a quick jab in the face before shoving him off balance onto the floor. However, the General recovered much quicker than Rainsford anticipated and he was up and in his fighting stance quicker than Rainsford could bat an eye.
“It takes much more to take down such an experienced and skilled fighter as I,” Zaroff taunted. “I have dealt with much more.”
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He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided.
Rainsford awoke the next morning to knowing that he needed to get off the island. He was worn out, tired and all he wanted to do was to come home to his friends, Whitney, and just live a simple life in the states. This isn’t what he wanted, he wanted off the island as soon as possible. However, he wasn’t aware of how he was going to get off this island. He had no transportation or communication to the outside world. So he made the internal decision that he was going to stay in Zaroff’s house until he figured it out.
However, one day turned into a week, and a week turned into a month, and a month turned into 2. He had spent 2 months on Ship-Trap Island looking for a way to leave this terrible island and return to his home. He had needed food so he went hunting for food. He weaved his way around and about the bushy trees, tall grasses, and full grown bushes, doing his best to avoid little poisonous insects. Every day it wasn’t sunny but either raining or full on cloudy and the conditions weren’t ever really good on the island. It was almost just like a jungle that he was trying to live in and Rainsford didn’t want to continue making a residence there. He would look for little snake or reptile to eat and he would have berries that he would find in the bushes using his knowledge wildlife knowledge to figure out if they are poisonous or