J says (Pt. 8)

Now cleansed physically, mentally, and even a bit spiritually, X delved onward with an overwhelmingly antithetical mindset than that of the beginning. The realization that when necessity transforms into voluntary enjoyment and recreation, had overwhelmed and lifted his spirits to the point of youthful jubilation. It truly proved as the most effective of remedies to the broken wanderer, now turned adventurer.

As X excitably continued his journey, vigor filled with each passing romp. He seemed to take in even the smallest aspects of nature that before had been so miniscule.  Almost as if he were befriending each creature that graced him along his purpose-filled path. While caught in the midst of an in depth conversation with his new found furry friend, X managed to nearly walk directly into what appeared to be an old decrepit and abandoned log fortress.

Of course, being engrained with the masculine sense of adventure and oozing testosterone from his pores, X was forced to investigate the situation at hand....