I said to srslyjulia that I'd write a happier Galeniss than my other oneshots, so this collection is born. I've about 5 chapters ready and I think it'll last about ten chapters.
Partner
"Wait!"
The arrow was shot and the little girl fumed in frustration, hands on her hip. "I told you to wait! Your arrow was too high!" She bent down to examine a dead rabbit, arrow sticking out its abdomen, blood staining its hide and the ground. "You ruin a good meat!" She began to shake her head and the boy was starting to be impatient. He didn't like to be bossed around by a skinny twelve year old girl, let alone be scolded by said girl.
"I aimed for its eye! It jumped right before I shot," he said in defense, though apparently the girl paid no attention. Instead, she began to save whatever she could from the shredded meat.
He got his revenge when she failed making the easiest knots he knew for the third time. Grinning smugly, he reached for another batch of rope, turning it into fully functional snare under a minute. "Your hands are so awkward. Can't you do better?" and "I told you to twist it this way!" and "Geez, if you do it like that, even a baby squirrel could escape with an ease" and a lot more mockery were given until she finished her first half-decent one, her eyes full with hatred at him. It didn't last long though, because both of them knew they would need the knowledge handy.
But that girl didn't like to lose at all, so when he skinned his first wild dog, she rolled her eyes and snatched the knife away from him, overtaking the beast before he could protest. "If you continue it that way, we'll be left with nothing to eat." He wanted to argue, but instead grumbled for a while because he knew she was true.
By the time they went to Hob at the end of their first week together, he had had much more fight than he had his entire life before he met her, even with two brothers, but he knew that she would be his partner from that time onwards.