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نیل (Pronounced "Nayel" or "Nile" for the people who didn't spend the better part of their childhood learning a language they didn't understand and reading a long-as-hell book written in it) somehow started to exist in a place he couldn't recognize. Yes, started to exist, as if there was no trace of him before the time, and as if he would continue to exist after it. It seemed completely uninhabited, as there were no houses or markings or even sharpened sticks on the miniscule place. Thoughts were racing in his mind. Why is this island so small compared to myself? Why is the grass cut perfectly to the micrometer? Why are there no animals on this island, not even ants? Of course, نیل was neurotic, but still rational. He began plotting his quest for survival, and because there was no material to make clothing from, he took down trees to make a shelter. Yes, he took down trees with his bare hands. It wasn't painful, and it really didn't feel that he was touching them at all. What was this, some sort of Matrix where he was god? Did he have the ability to interact with this world how he pleased, like in that computer game, the name of which happened to escape him. And, in one fell swoop, 2 tree stumps became a wall. The walls were thin, and didn't look like they would hold up for a long time, but they worked. Then he saw something. It was not another person, but it was alive, and wasn't a plant. He was just able to make out its shape before it receded into its hole. Cats. Always too timid for their own good. Nobody seemed to distribute rabies shots in remote island-ville, so he didn't bother looking for it again. And, in the time that he wasted looking at the cat, the tree grew back. What the hell? Does this place have seasons, or do the plants just come up whenever they want to? Remembering his promise not to question, he gathered the Neo-wood anyway, and was able to build a house. The house was unusually stable, even though he had no experience as a carpenter.