Day number five! Going to shoot for at least one consecutive week of 5-minute freewrites and see how it goes from there. Decided to continue one of my first freewrites, and may develop this setting into a larger narrative. For organization's sake, I'll call the setting "Still Earth" and use the tag #stillearth in any posts related to that setting.
Tomorrow I'm looking forward to getting started with the next A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words contest! I love to write, and the HBI project is something that's interested me since it's Steem days, so a chance to earn a little more is all the more welcome! Even if I don't win, it will just be nice to getting back to just writing for writing's sake.
Without further ado, on to this week's freewrite!
Credit for the prompt goes to @daily.prompt, @mariannewest, and @freewritehouse
Image from Marisa04 on Pixabay
The centuries that followed after the Earth had come to a standstill had brought about a different kind of human. As the concept of nations and borders soon became the stuff of history and myth, tribes of surviving humans found a way to survive, following the habitable zone between the two extreme climates that tracked across the Earth over the course of a year.
Each of them had a different culture and practices, though common among all of them was a steadfast individualist mindset; that one must always find their own path in this new world, never to be decided by one chieftain or another. No other tribe practiced this more than the Kan'karik.
They were a tribe of hunter-gatherers, like many had become with traditional farming becoming near impossible. They and their kin became experts at tracking the migratory animals that adapted and evolved in the years since Earth's halting, and to identify useful and edible plants that grow as the climate begins to warm.
One practice in particular among the Kan'karik that ensures their ability to survive, is that at eighteen years of age, a Kan'karik must spend a day waiting in stillness as the tribe moves on without them, with the challenge to follow a single rotation of the Earth alone, only to unite with their kin when and if they survive their journey.