Chapter 7 Winter's Feuds
(Roxas POV)
If you've lived in Galaxia Village, you've known we are very environmental; which means we never use electricity and only burn wood or coal for cooking. Food is often dried in the sun to be saved for winter. That was what Xion and I had been doing during autumn, fishing and gathering fruits and vegetables from the garden. Aqua has been drying the food we collected and storing them in jars to save in our basement.
"Will it be enough for everyone?" Xion asked.
"I hope so, usually we use twelve jars, but this time it is twenty-four, I'm certain it's enough," Aqua said.
Even though it hasn't started to snow yet, it was already feeling like winter. Everyone has started bundling up in their winter coats. Xion unfortunately had to borrow some of Aqua's even though they were too big so I lent her a few of mine for a while.
"Look at the little outsider dressing as a boy," Selphie said.
That had enraged me, for Xion was my girlfriend, "I lent those to Xion so she could stay warm during winter," I said.
"Look it's not my fault she's an outsider," Selphie said.
"You know what Selphie, your father may be the leader, but you are no leader, you are a bossy, snobby little thorn in my life now. I've never had one before but now I do because of you," Xion said.
"How dare you take that back," Selphie said.
"Never," Xion said.
"Father," Selphie said running home.
Now Xion and I had to spend a night outside of a house. Luckily on the way to the cliff there was a small cave, often vacant so we spent the night there and Aqua gave each of us a small jar of food. (A/N: the jars they used to store food are around the size of a giant vase. The small jar is around either a cup or a pitcher.) We had a fire going on and cooked some of the dried fish inside our jar, saving the rest for later. The cave was still cold seeing how we had not much of a fire going on near the mouth of the cave and it was a blizzard outside.
"Roxas it's still cold outside," Xion said, she was wearing one of Aqua's winter shawls but I could feel her shivering on my body.
"It's okay, I'll try to make the fire more into the cave," I said.
Carefully I grabbed a couple twigs and a log and formed a ring inside the cave, I grabbed my flint stones and made fire still cozy and we had enough room to sleep.
"Is that better?" I asked.
"A little, but it will be fine," Xion said.
(Xion POV)
When he heard me say that, he came up and wrapped his arm around me and I snuggled closer to him. Then I had fallen asleep right in his arms.
(Roxas POV)
I felt Xion fall asleep, I let her rest in my arms, I was keeping watch of the mouth of the cave, and I would have to later wake Xion up so she could take her turn in watch. But we were both awake at the same time for half the night, when she woke up, it was morning and she told me to rest.
(Xion POV)
Roxas was sound asleep; I added a few twigs to the dwindling fire and cooked a breakfast for the both of us. When he woke up, we both ate our breakfast, and we got our things and left for the path. On our way back I found the tracks of caribou. When we found them, we found a herd of them.
"Don't go for the young or the mothers, go after the elderly ones," Roxas said.
Quickly we had hunted down two elderly caribou and dragged them back to Galaxia Village, for everyone to have some fresh meat. There, they were waiting for us and were surprised.
(Roxas POV)
Usually whenever I was punished to stay a night away from home, the cave was the first place I would go to. This time we were lucky to have found the herd, those tracks were nearly invisible but Xion was able to spot them. I knew that we would have seen the caribou as food for everyone when we had returned.
"I am amazed to see you two young ones return and with caribou," Leo, the leader and Selphie's father said, "In return of this generosity and of two mighty beasts, we shall feast tonight of this generosity of Roxas and Xion."
We were glad to see everyone happy with the caribou; it would feed everyone and leave some left over for seconds. We got to enjoy our free time as others were preparing the caribou for the feast.
"Where' Aqua?" I asked Ven.
"No clue, she is doing some secret thing," Ven said.
When we were enjoying the feast, there was music and a great big fire to light up the night. Then Aqua came up and handed Xion a wrapped object.
After the feast, we had gone to our room; I've been sharing my room with Xion but had separate beds. There, Xion opened her gift from Aqua; it was a caribou fur hooded jacket, shawl, skirt and boots. Hers so she could stay warm for the winter. This had excited her, that meant not wearing neither Aqua's nor my own winter clothes.