mlpfan1982

**(y/n) pov** I open my eyes and the first thing I notice is the gloomy grey sky. Then the cold hits and I look down at myself to see that the only thing covering my small body is a thin nightgown. I wrap my small arms around my body, trying my best to keep the heat in and the cold out, it doesn't work very well. I slowly get up and look around to find that I am alone surrounded by the snow covered ground and trees. 'Where am I? I'm all alone, I don't want be alone! Someone please help me!' I feel my eyes start to burn and I rapidly blink, trying to keep the tears from falling, but they fall anyway. A small sob escapes my lips and that is all

Period: Early Quaternary (Late Pleistocene, Late Tarantian) Date: 30,000 BC Location: Western Europe Nighttime in southwestern Europe. A Homo sapiens man is busy making a lamp, twisting a piece of Red Deer sinew around using his teeth to make a wick. He pours some scavenged Steppe Bison fat into a hollowed flat stone, and uses an ember from a campfire to ignite it. He turns and enters a narrow passage in the cliff face behind him, and begins to walk deep into a cave system. Led by the flickering flame, his shadows rise and fall against the walls of rock, as he walks, crawls and climbs for as much as half an hour to reach a vast cavern deep