The following days you follow the river downstream towards the south. On your way you get to eat many different treats. You churn on delicious salmon while taking a swim. As their flesh enters your body you feel more and more atune to the waters. Eating rocks has proven to be a very painful experience. You felt your skin harden alot but you feel that you really have to concentrate on rocks to get a fulfilling experience out of it.
During the nights, as you won't be sleeping for another year, you caught some bats, and found out where they live and they have become a steady food for you, as you love biting their heads off. You can feel wings growing, so far they are only fangs, but your breast has grown increasingly and you feel that in a matter of weeks you might be flying. Strangely your hearing has become much more accurate but bright light becomes increasingly uncomfortable for you.
Dragonflies and frogs are next on the menu. It all started when you watched meditatively upon the river. A frog, sitting on a leaf, waiting cautiously. Then a dragonfly flies by, and he snaps his tongue out. Dragonflies are very difficult to catch and hardly worth the effort, but frogs taste rather unique.
The forest becomes thicker and thicker by every day passing, the weather has changed to, as it changed from a mild climate to a very humid and hot place. The river has also grown in size and strength. You feel that this place is more challenging.