The bears ran off.<span style="font-weight: bold">"Good."</span>Rock Hammer thought. If wasn't sure if that would have worked. He might have killed at least two of the bears and made their biggest run off, but when it came to these wild animals usually scaring them only gave Rock Hammer time to put some distance between him and his unwanted guest until the fight was back on. And no one was killed to boot, which was always a good thing. He'd have to be more careful next time however, and make sure he was listening to his surroundings instead of his voices.<br/><br/>"Whoo! One hell of a show that was, did you see them lasers fly? Like clockwork I tell ya, reminds me of my first battle back at Yugo, against those demons. And there was no survivors. So, you come from the sticks or something? Thank you, by the way, but could you kindly move that giant rock so we can get our tasty tasty morsels? Please sir, can I have some more?"<br/><br/>Voices were back. And he couldn't really block them out this time, not after he silences them like before. But he was fairly used to this by now. He'd let them ramble in his head while he would go skin and eat that bear. But before he could leave the hill that little razrboar was back and it spoke to him again.<br/><br/>"Hey, hey, what are you doing mister? We're going to have a great bit party! There will be nice food and drinks and people and warm fire. Not like that mean fire from a couple of weeks ago, when you got covered in that black stuff by those bad people. This is good fire. Why don't you come and stay and hang out with us?"<br/><br/>To complicated matters, the piglet's voice was lost in the cacophony of other voices in Rock Hammer's head. Worse still, the piglet's master, some sort of yellow-haired woman. Rock Hammer could see her mouth move to form words but everything she said, if she said anything at all, was mixed in the various sounds and voices that Rock Hammer was hearing. He wasn't sure what she had said, from asking his name to his military record (which he wouldn't know anyways unless the voices told him something, and he wasn't really paying attention to them at this point either).<br/><br/>Rock Hammer decided to just try to think about other things that he'll need to do. Looking down at his guts, he now began to notice he was bleeding out. The pain hit him all at once, but again, he had worse, so he didn't clutch into a ball and cry in pain or anything. Still, his wounds really really hurt, and if he didn't do something about it soon it was going to hurt more. At least his guts were still inside his body and the bear only managed to scar up his harden abdomen. Poking at some flesh that was torn off, he took off one of his dog hides and tied that around his body, as a makeshift bandage. He wasn't sure how useful it'll be at healing his wounds, but at least he won't be bleeding everywhere now.<br/><br/>That was one problem solved, now to the woman and her piglet. Rock Hammer did contemplate eating the "bunny", as he recognized it as, however with a fresh kill not too far behind him Rock Hammer opted to spare the creature. Besides, from how affectionate it was with the woman, Rock Hammer knew that it was a pet, an people don't like him eating pets, even if they were delicious. He than looked up to the woman, and to his surprise she was still there and looking at him. Did she say something that he was suppose to respond to? Rock Hammer got nervous. He wasn't paying attention to the voices and likely didn't hear her say anything. What would she have to say to him anyways? Seeing that she wasn't point weapons at him she wasn't scared of him. Which may or may not be a bad thing, though for all he knew she might be angry at him too. She didn't look like it, but last time he talked to a woman, she was distracting him so he would get covered in oil. He still never figured out why those people did that to him.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">"Uh... Hi."</span>That was the best that Rock Hammer could respond with. The voices went nuts, saying random things about "Scoring" and "Fooly Cooly" and other things that Rock Hammer could recognize as sexual innuendos, but only listened in on the off chance that the woman speaks to him again. Hopefully she'll talk about something that doesn't involve a tussle in the bushes, or else Rock Hammer would never understand her.<span style="font-weight: bold">"I... I'm going to eat that bear. Nice to meet you."</span>And just as quickly as they met, Rock Hammer nervously left the woman and her pet to go skin that bear he killed. He took out his sharp knife and first began to skin the beast. His fur would make a nice hood. His flesh could be strapped to his body like organic armor and a quick snack. But this was going to take a while. Rock Hammer was already thinking about dragging this bear somewhere where he could cut it up in peace.<br/><br/>He stopped and looked back at the woman.<span style="font-weight: bold">"Maybe she would know?"</span>Rock Hammer said out loud. He rarely thought to himself, seeing that his voices were in his head. He was scared that if he thought in his head, his voices would steal his words from his mouth.<br/><br/>"Go find a cave and make that bear skin rug your magic carpet to glory! Go go go! Caves are often teeming with wildlife and treasure, like a skeleton made of diamonds. I mean, have you ever punched a bird? Half the damage!"<br/><br/>Rock Hammer quickly returned to ignoring the voices and continued to talk to himself.<span style="font-weight: bold">"Hmm... I don't want those bears to come back. But this is going to take some time. Maybe if I work on it while I look for a cave, I'll be done. Kind of hungry still though..."</span>Rock Hammer mumbled to himself as he continued to skin the bear.