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 A loud scream woke Hiero from his dreams - yesterday's hunting trip was exhausting but rewarding and sent him to sleep earlier and deeper than usual, yet the scream he just heard was so agonizing that even he woke up immediately. He had almost forgotten about the scream as he rubbed his eyes when he heard the scream once more. Hiero jumped on his feet, pushed aside the curtain in the doorway between his sleeping quarter and the main room of his and his parents' shack and then gently set his foot on the soft sand outside his home. The sun laid a bright glow upon the village which, despite its peaceful nature, was already reasonably busy at this time in the morning. One man transported pieces of wood towards the construction at the end of the village on the side facing inland. After years the village was now finally getting a protective wall to discourage predators, scavengers and also outsiders from going into the village. It wouldn't be the first time that some massive snake or primate makes its way into the village to cause drama. There were stories of people who would just show up in the village and introduce themselves, but Hiero never actually witnessed such an event first-hand. Either way, the threat was real and the village finally decided to build a wall so that movements into and out of the village could be more easily controlled. A metallic, rhythmic clanking could be heard from the direction of the forge and the fletcher was hard at work too. Hiero saw a woman hysterically run out of a shack where the harvest and crops were usually stored. "It's gone!", she yelled, "it's gone again!" People turned around surprised and approached to see what was going on. "All the potatoes that we harvested yesterday and which we made extra sure would not be stolen?" she pointed at the inside of the shack. "I even slept right next to it tonight so that nobody could take it! And then I wake up just now and what?" the woman paused briefly, "It's gone! It's just gone! The entire sack just vanished! Everything else is still there, it's as if someone specifically went for the potatoes!" A small crowd had gathered around the woman and Hiero only stared at them as they started hypothesizing about what it could have been, talking over each other with wild theories and conspiracies.