It's already night, they decided that it be best for them to rest since it's already dark. Iris sits down in front of the fire, "So, you are telling me that you lived in the Elf Village then humans broke into it, killing and hunting all the elves, took this boy's mother who helped you and now you're trying to get her back? With no clue about this place? And you've been wandering in this forest for days? Oh, and lied to me about being hunt down, just so that I would help you?", the man says. Iris replies, "yes, yes, yes and yes. But I wouldn't say that I completely lied about being hunt down.", leaving the man speechless. "And you're not going to take Oberon away, right?", Iris glares at him while holding Oberon close. "No, why would I?", the man says. "I mean, who knows what you will do once he's in your hands.", Iris says. "I'm not like that. I don't torture creatures for my own satisfaction.", the man sighs in disbelieved.
"Uhm, sir, are we not going to eat? I'm kinda hungry…", Oberon asks the man. "Sir?", the man raises his eyebrows. "Well, what are we supposed to call you then, sir?", Iris says. "Lucius. It's my name.", he says. Oberon hesitates, "Mine, mine is Oberon! And she's Iris!", "Oberon, we shouldn't tell our name to a stranger!", Iris whispers. "Iris, huh?", Lucius says, looking at her. "Wha- what about it?", Iris stutters. "Do you know that you stutter when you are nervous.", he says, still looking at her. Iris face becomes red, "why is he staring at me? Stop staring! You making me nervous. I need to do something. God, his face though… How could a man be so beautiful… Wait, no! Why is he still staring!", Iris thinks to herself. Feeling conflicted, she then gets up, "I'm, I'm going to take a walk.". "I will come too!", Oberon gets up, wanting to follow Iris. "No, you stay here. Don't worry, I'm just walking right over there, okay?", Iris says while pointing at the nearest tree. She then walks away to the tree, just circling it.
Oberon looks down, "You really like being with her, huh?", Lucius says while putting more woods into the fire. "Yeah… She's like my family now! She's kind, gentle… She always says that she's fine, but I know she just as scared. I just don't want her to get hurt or even taken away from me…", Oberon says, playing with the grass. "Well, I can see that she's weak. Though, I don't know how you guys survived this long. Not to mention she made three stakes without knowing how to use it.", Lucius says. He then took something from his coat. "Here, drinks some water. You'll get dehydrated if you don't.", Lucius hands Oberon a bottle of water. Oberon, who is thirsty, takes it and only have three sips, "Thank you…". "Why are you only having three sips? Drink more.", Lucius says. "No, it's okay. I want to leave some for Iris and you.", Oberon says while looking towards Iris.
"Hey you there, sit down! Stop circling that tree! You might get dizzy and then it's me the one who will need to bring you here.", Lucius who saw Oberon staring at Iris decided to calls her. Iris thoughts disappears the moment Lucius calls her. "Do this man think I'm that weak? Hmph!", Iris mumbles. She sits down while smiling at Oberon. "Here Iris! Drink some, Lucius gave it to us.". Awkwardly, Iris thanks Lucius, "Thank you…". Iris then proceed to take only five sips of it and hand it to Oberon, "Okay, I'm done. So, Oberon, you can drink more.". "What about you? I saw you only drink a little.", Oberon worries. "Hey, I got plenty enough. Besides, I'm fine. So, drink up.", Iris tries to reassure Oberon. Well, she lied of course. She is thirsty, but she is forcing herself to think that she is not. It is actually easy for her to manipulate her mind from eating or drinking for a long time as she has done that multiple time in her first life. Yes, it is more towards starving oneself than dieting. But Iris doesn't care. You might think she doing these because she wants to be pretty. Fortunately, no. She couldn't care less about being pretty. Unfortunately, though, it's because she always forgets to eat or even too lazy to eat. Which is, a bad habit. Which led to, her not having enough energy daily.
"Just drink more both of you, damn.", Lucius tired of them being generous over each other. "But what about you sir? Aren't you thirsty?", Oberon ask. "I am stronger than you think kid. So don't worry about me.". "Who say he's worried about you? He just asked out of courtesy.", Iris teasing Lucius. Lucius glares at her, "Whatever. Just so you know, we will not eat anything tonight. Though, tomorrow morning I will hunt for a deer or something. So, go to sleep. Unless you want to spend time thinking how hungry you are.", Lucius lays down to sleep. "Sheesh, seems like someone can't take a joke.", Iris mumbles to herself. "Oberon, shall we sleep now?", Iris asks. Before Oberon could answer, he yawns. "Haha, looks like you are sleepy huh? Okay, let's go to sleep.", Iris chuckles. She lay down to her side, patting the ground. "Come here. Before we sleep, I have something to give to you.", she smiles. Oberon sits next to her. Iris takes an object out from her pocket, giving it to him. "Is this… a bracelet? So pretty!", Oberon asks excitedly. "Yes. This is a gift for you for your birthday. Well… I know I'm late. And we don't have a cake or even candles for you to blow out. But, I still want to give it to you.". Oberon wears it on his left arm, "This is good enough! Thank you so much Iris… I love it!". He starts to tears up. If only Hestia is here with them. "Don't cry, I promise everything will be okay. We going to rescue your mom as soon as possible, okay?", Iris hugs Oberon, patting his back. An idea strikes in her head, she then takes a small twig and burn the tip. "Here. Act like this twig is a candle and blow it out. Then wish whatever you want! Keep it to yourself though.", she hands it to Oberon making him stop tearing up. Oberon blows out the fire on the twig and put both of his hands together. He continues to wish while closing his eyes. After he done wishing, he opens his eyes and smiles to Iris, "Thank you Iris.".
"That was ridiculous. Do you think blowing the so called 'candle' will make your wish come true?", Lucius interrupts their moment while still laying down. "What, don't say that! You're not sleeping yet? Oberon, don't worry about him, your wish will definitely come true! Okay, how about we go to sleep now?", Iris glares at Lucius. She then tells Oberon to sleep. While Oberon preparing to sleep, Iris smacks Lucius's arm, "Don't say mean stuff to Oberon. If you say more… I will do more than just a smack on the arm.", she glares at him then distance herself from him. This of course, shocks Lucius. But he doesn't do anything despite being irritated by her and tries to go to sleep. Finally, the atmosphere is peaceful since everyone are sleeping.
The birds chirping cheerfully. The sun is up indicating that it is now morning. Iris, however, is still sleeping peacefully. Usually, she would wake up early, not because she wanted to. But because how cold she feels. Though this morning, somehow, she feels warm, making her difficult to wake up. Well, that is until a man shouted in her ears, "Wake up!". Iris sits up immediately, her eyes still closed. "What… What happened?". She rubs her eyes, revealing Lucius who is laughing at her in her sight. "Urgh… This man again… What do you want?", Iris is a bit upset since her precious sleep was interrupt by Lucius.
"We caught a deer. It is almost cooked, so get up and eat.", Lucius says, "Oh, don't forget to give me back my coat. I hope you didn't drool all over it.", He says pointing at his coat on Iris lap. Iris surprised, looking down to see a coat on her lap. "I, I didn't drool all over it, okay! When did you put it on me?", she threw the coat to Lucius. "Well, I couldn't bear seeing you moving weirdly in your sleep while wailing that you are... cold. It's annoying.", Lucius says, catching and putting on his coat. When Iris about to start a quarrel with Lucius, Oberon then appears beside Iris, holding a piece of meat that he cuts and put it on a big leaf to holds it as a plate. "Here, Iris.". "Thank you. Did you guys wake up early, and left me alone to go hunting?", Iris says while holding the meat. "Yes. Got a problem with that?", Lucius says. "He's joking Iris. Well, part of it were. Lucius can hear miles away. So, if you were to scream, he will hear you even if you are far away from him.", Oberon says, trying to calm Iris down. "If you say so…", Iris puts down the meat on the ground and stares at it. Lucius sees her staring at the meat, "Why aren't you eating?". "I never eat a deer before. I, kinda feel sorry for the deer… This making me lose my appetite.", Iris says looking at the decapitated deer. "Damn, you're a picky eater huh? But do I care? The answer is no. So, just eat it.", Lucius says then taking a bite of the meat. "Urghh…", Iris looks displeased, biting just a bit of the meat. She tries to take her mind somewhere so she wouldn't throw up. But she couldn't get away from imagining the decapitated deer with blood all over it. And just like that, she gets up, runs towards a tree and throws up. "Are you okay Iris? Here, drinks some water!", worried, Oberon runs to her, giving her some water. "Thank you…", she takes the water from Oberon's hand and drinks it. After she has calm down, she looks at Oberon who is showing a concern face. "I'm fine, don't worry about me. Let's go back", Iris smiles.
They both sits down. Oberon continues to eat, meanwhile Iris doesn't. "You're not eating?", Oberon asks. "No, It's fine. So, eat a lot.", Iris says. "Well, don't faint later on.", Lucius says, finishing his food. "I'm not going to faint, okay?", Iris says, feeling annoyed at Lucius. "If you say so. Now, let's finish this fast, so we could go now.". Oberon nods and eats, finishing his food. After they have finished their food, they then prepare to move away from the current place. "Okay, let's go. Don't forget to stay close. I've taught you how to use a stake right?", Lucius says to Oberon. Oberon nods, holding his stake in a fight position. "You didn't teach me though?", Iris says. "Yeah, well, somebody woke up late.", Lucius says. "I will definitely wake up early next time!", Iris flustered, determine to wake up earlier from today. "Goodluck with that then.", without noticing, Lucius chuckles. "Did you just chuckles at me?", Iris hits his back. Lucius is too busy thinking about something than noticing her hitting his back. Putting his hand on his mouth, he mumbles to himself, "Why… did I chuckles?".