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As the "Old One" got along in his stories leading up to when he met the first outside survivors,he told of the time when he finally left his sacred cave.

After years living in his beloved cave, it began to cool an the radiation outside didnt make him dizzy as it had before.

He began to come nearer to the portal of the cave more an more often, seeing the land outside go from a barren waste land to a slowly greening thicket of small saplings an over brush as the native brambles an thorns began to grow again an not be burned away by either the intense radiation or the heat of the day an temperature swings of a blighted world.

An one day he spy'ed a bush just a few feet outside of the cave. A blackberry bush, he licked his lips remembering the times when as a boy he woul pick them with his mother on the land behind thier house, wild an vaguely tart.

"I ...I must have a taste" he thought, an that was the day almost 30 years after he had entered the cave that he left his cave an began the life in the outer world again.