He didn’t have anything to build fire with, didn’t have anything to cover his body, so he was just walking ashardfast as he could to keep warmThe last thing he remembered was that birthday party in his house, a sudden pain inthe hearthis chest, a choked groan and…darkness.When he cameinto sensesAll his bodyseemed to bewas covered with goose bumps.get rid of this terriblefeeling ofnumbnessSo many times he cried for help, but with no luckAt one of the stops - were there several? Why did he stop? And really the cause and the consequence are begging to be swapped:At one of the stops, he thoroughly examined his body. The reason why he did that was because he suddenly felt like there was something wrong with it. First of all, the skin did not look like skin of an old man, without all these cracks and wrinkles. It was really smooth and young-looking. Then, Peter noticed that he had went quite a distance without getting tired, which was simply impossible for an old man like him. Finally, when he had to jump over a creek on his way, he did it with suspicious ease.
Peter noticed that in spite of the fact he'd covered quite a large distance by then there was no fatigue which seemed impossible for an old man like him. Once he had to jump over a creek happenned in his way and he did is with suspicious ease. Something was very wrong. Finally he stopped and examined his body. His skin wasn't a wrinked skin of an old man but was very smooth and young, his muscles had the now-forgotten strength in them, his old scars were gone, and blahbhah...
resumed hisramblingwanderingwhere he couldslakequiet his immediate thirstThatIt was an old little road... with grass grown through the numerous cracks.all covered with grass
Peter saw neither tracks nor footprints.Peter couldn’t see either tracks, or footprints on it
You're jumping to conclusions. Any other century will look the same or otherwise you should explain why the first half of the 20th century.Strange, but he didn’t spot any cars or other vehicles and the whole hamlet looked very poor and ancient, just like it would have been looking in the first half of the 20th century.
Speaking of which. What time of day it was in the beginning? I got the full impression from 'cold dark forest' that is was night. Now it was day. I can imagine nights in early summer can be cold, but certainly you won't be freezing to death in the daytime, even if you are naked.When it became darker
Don't you just love being a proofreader? LOLsaw the old man gazing at him with an astonished gaze.![]()
The old mad gave him an astonished gaze.
'Better' sounds as if there was something bad in gazing with astonished gazehe himself wouldn’t have been looking anybetterdifferent
I don't quite understand what you were trying to say with 'shed the spirit'.All these candles, a kerosene lamp, rough wooden furniture, even clothes, everything shed the spirit of antiquity.