Romantic Getaway (Sort of)

Flash was trying to carve spears out of long sticks with his knife. As he was carving, he spoke to Twilight.

"Twilight, if you don't want to go through with this... It's fine."

"No Flash... really I'm okay." She said, but Flash could see her shaking a bit. "Twilight... If you want I could hunt one myself. You don't have to-"

"Flash, really it's alright." She said, with a bit more confidence in her tone.

"Okay... if you say so."

Flash finished another spear for her to use. He started leading her down to the stream, but then Twilight remembered she was hurt.

"Twilight, before we go, let me take a quick look at your wounds."

"Oh, alright Flash." She complied. Twilight laid down in the shelter and Flash unwrapped her bandaged flank.

"Well. Good news is your Flank is well enough for no bandages." Twilight had a sigh of relief, as the bandages were annoying when she trotted. Flash unwrapped the one around her waist and looked at the stitching.

"How is it?" She asked. Flash was still inspecting it. "Well, it's doing better. It's not bleeding anymore so you don't need the bandages."

Flash discarded them into the fuel pile. "Alright, the stitching should be fine, let's head down to the river." Twilight responded with a nod.

As they were walking down to the river, Twilight noticed the fish trying to hop upstream.

"So, what do we do?" She asked.

"Well, when you see one of them is close enough, dive your spear at them."

"Okay... like this?" She did a diving motion with her spear.

"Hmm, you don't have enough leverage, here."

Flash dropped his spear and walked behind Twilight, and put his arms around her to show her how you held the spear. Twilight blushed at this.

"Hold it a bit higher up, you need to hold it at almost the complete center." Twilight did as she was told, and held it like he taught her.

"Good, now grip it like this." Flash commanded.

Flash put his arm a bit around the spear so it could be gripped tighter. Twilight did it too.

Flash let go of her and grabbed his spear.

"Alright, mimic me." He commanded.

Flash held his arm up, and dived his spear into the snow.

Twilight did the same, and Flash smiled at her.

"Good, let's get into the stream. Don't slip, the current is strong."

"Okay, I'll be careful."

Twilight stepped into the water, so did Flash. They immediately shivered. The water was just as cold as when they fell into the lake. They had to hurry.

Twilight looked desperately for a fish. She then saw one that was swimming stationary in the stream. Twilight was about to spear it, when she hesitated.

Come on... I can do this...

Twilight held up her spear, and brought it down straight through the fish. Doing so made her flinch a bit, then she realized it didn't feel that excruciating. She carefully lifted it up. It was about 9 inches in length. I am so glad they don't show emotion... Twilight said, and she looked at Flash, who was also holding up a fish. Flash saw Twilight caught one, and she waved at her.

"Good job! Let's get back to the- OOF!"

Twilight saw Flash slip and fall into the water. She quickly and carefully trotted over to him.

"Flash, you alright?" She said as she helped him up. He was soaked, and shivering now. "Y-yeah I'm f- fine. J-j-just c-cold." He said with his shivering voice. He was still holding on to the fish he caught, and Twilight helped him out of the river. She moved quickly, as Flash was very cold.

Once they got back to the camp site, Twilight helped Flash to the fire.

"T-t-thanks..."

"Don't mention it." She responded.

Flash was already getting warm, and Twilight was setting up a new fire outside so they could cook the fish. After Flash got warm enough, he joined her.

"Twilight, you still have my knife? He asked.

"Oh yeah, here." She handed him the blade, and he started to cut the two fish into three pieces. Then, he took Twilight's spear and put pieces on it. He put it on two sticks across from each other with the fire pit in between them. Twilight lit the fire, and then they waited. Flash spoke up.

"Twilight, were you... okay when you... killed it?"

"I flinched a bit at first, but it wasn't that bad." She responded. "Okay... good. I'm glad you are alright.

"Um... Flash, I need some water."

"Okay, here. It's almost out so I need to refill it." Twilight took it and jugged down the rest of the water, and gave it back to Flash.

"That's refreshing, thank you." She said.

"Hey... I didn't even notice! The storm is gone!" Twilight said. "Hey, you're right! Finally!" He agreed. Flash checked his watch. "It's 11:00, we should get moving soon." He suggested. "Yeah, I am going to go get the food." Twilight went to go get what little food they had left.

"Twilight, how hungry are you? I want to know if we cook both fish. We can conserve one in my pack with snow if we need it later."

Twilight thought about it. "Flash, I feel like I could... maybe eat half of one."

"Okay good. Me too. Let's keep this other one for later."

Flash took the second fish now in pieces off the spear and set it on the snow. He grabbed the bag with the remaining food, and set it on the snow. He then filled it half way with snow, and put the sliced fish in, then he put the fish in and filled the other half. He put the remaining food they had on top of all of it. "Okay, that should do it. Let's just wait for the fish to cook so we can have lunch, then we're off."

"Okay, sounds good." She complied.

After about ten minutes, the fish was sizzling, and it was ready to eat. Flash took the sliced fish off, and started to cut it into smaller pieces. He laid some leaves on the ground so he could set them down. "Okay, I guess I'll go first." He said. Flash took one of the pieces of the cooked fish, and started to eat it. The fish was a tad bitter, and had a zingy taste to it. After he swallowed it, he spoke to Twilight, who was watching him eat nervously. "Well... It's not exactly a three course meal, but it will do. It tastes a bit bitter with a smooth texture." Flash gestured Twilight to eat. She hesitated for a moment, but decided to eat it. It tasted as he described, it was a bit bitter, but it tasted good enough. "Well... At least we aren't just stuck eating the berries and Frostfires." She said. Twilight took more pieces and ate up. So did Flash.

After they were done eating, they packed up. Flash then thought of something. "Hmm, Twilight, I decided to change our plan a bit." He said.

"What do you mean?"

"Well... originally we were heading West, but that river where we were hunting leads South. I say, we follow the river instead. It is an abundant source for food, and it could lead to a watermill, or a camp."

"That does make sense... alright. I agree." She said.

"Okay, down the river it is..." Flash said.

Flash and Twilight continued down the river, in hopes of it leading somewhere satisfying.