The three men trudged on in the ice, the wind continued blowing the snow in different directions. They held each other hands to get some warmth as they walked on, they were tired cold and very hungry. One of them fell and he groaned then started to laugh, the two other men stopped to help him up "come on, Viktor, this is no time for jokes" one of the men said giving him his hands. Viktor took his hand and instead pulled him down into the ice, laughing harder now.

The man that Viktor pulled down to the ice shook his head irregularly with slight displeasure expressed on his face, he said to the other man.

"Dmitri, you see what this goofy is doing now, Ten years in the prison wasn't enough to cure him of his overly playful attitude"

"Well, brothers, let's rest a little here" Viktor said still slightly laughing. He continued "Aleksei, what is life without a little fun even in suffering, like the Latin people would say 'Capre Diem'

will you let me hug you, dear brother?, it's so cold". He spread his hands and tried to hug Aleksei but Aleksei beat his hand away, he laughed again. Dmitri sat on the ice too, he have been observing everything with a slight smile. "Well, i'm tired too, let's rest here for one minute and we'll move on".

The men have just escaped from a Siberian prison and they were moving to the nearest place where there would be something more than just ice.

Viktor spoke again "Would you die for a coconut if you saw one now?"

"I'll probably kill you to have it all" Aleksei said". "Me too" Viktor replied.

"Or we could just share it" Dmitri answered.

They continued walking again and then they saw a coconut in the ice, they looked astonished. Viktor rushed to get it immediately but Aleksei jumped on him and they both fell to the ice. "let me go" Viktor said. "I found it first" Aleksei replied. Viktor struck Aleksei on his mouth, "Oh is that it, you want to die for a coconut?" Aleksei asked. he struck Viktor too on his forehead and they started fighting and rolling on the ice.

Dmitri watched confused for a minute but then he quickly rushed to get the coconut too, Viktor quickly freed himself from Aleksei and went after Dmitri, he caught him by the waist and sent him crashing over the coconut.

Aleksei pulled out a gun and pointed it at Viktor. "What, you have a gun!?" Viktor exclaimed "I'm about to shoot if someone don't toss me that coconut now!" Aleksei said. "Never" Viktor said.

"Or we can all just share it" Dmitri said.

Viktor tried to run quickly to hide behind a big lump of snow but Aleksei shot him in the leg before he reached the lump but Viktor still went behind it, he groaned in pain. "You piece of shit, you dared to shoot me".

Dmitri seized the opportunity to take cover behind the other lump of snow.

Aleksei started coming closer to the two large lumps of ice "come on out, no one will get hurt unless you mess with my coconut". "You'll never have it" Viktor said back. Aleksei shot at the lump of snow that Viktor was hiding behind but it was so thick it didn't get to Victor. Aleksei got closer to the place where Viktor was hiding but Viktor immediately came out and threw some snow into his eyes, then skillfully got hold of the gun and shot him twice in the belly, he fell down as his blood stained the white snow.

"You just killed him, Viktor" Dmitri shouted from behind the snow.

"Come on out now or you'll die too," Viktor said to him, his feet was still gushing out blood from where Aleksei shot him. Dmitri came out but he had a knife ready in his pocket. "Throw me the coconut" Dmitri bent to pick up the coconut and he brought out the knife too and threw it right into Viktor's chest. But Viktor shot him too in his abdomen and they both fell down there. They were quiet for a while, "why did we just do all these over a coconut?" Dmitri asked

"Don't you know, suffering and hunger changes men to their most vile form" Viktor answered.

"You wouldn't even get to see Miss Goody" Aleksei said.

Viktor thought about it for a while and then he sighed and smiled "Good old miss Goody" he said and then they both died.

Suddenly a monstrous ice creature with long legs like an ostrich came out from under the ground with little ones like it. "Come and bite in, children, petty humans, they die for nothing, it wasn't even a real coconut".