Book 3: Chapter 27
Dear readers, I would like to ask you to consider the following problem.
You haven’t eaten anything normal for the last five days; the only things you ate were grass, raw meat and rotten berries. The one time you drank water was rain water that fell into a lake. You’re wet from head to toe, you didn’t get to warm up and you even jumped into a lake.
Oh yeah, you’ve had less than eight hours of sleep over the last five days too.
So my question to you is…
Would you be able to hold a short bow, accurately aim and hit the heart of a white deer about eighty metres away under such circumstances?
The answer is, no.
It’d take everything to survive under those conditions. There’d be nothing left for your body to use for fuel. As a matter of fact, your muscles would’ve begun to atrophy, while your digestive system and circulatory system would’ve begun to break down one another. Your heart would be doing everything in its power to maintain functioning, and your central nervous system would be affected as well. Your mental processes would slow down due to the lack of rest, thereby impacting your vision.
Your body would feel like it would stop functioning. Given those circumstances, your central nervous system would already be severely hampered and your electrolyte imbalance would cause your heart to function abnormally. Lastly, without a sufficient supply of oxygen and blood to your brain, you’ll end up dead without a doubt.
That doesn’t apply exclusively to humans.