Memories

“Thisss isssn’t sssomething we ssshould be doing, Grapevine!” He stumbled as his arm was pulled again by the bigger Floran.

He was countered with a laugh, “Marss! You sssneak out of classsess all the time!” She let’s go of his arm for a moment, only to face him and grab both arms, “Like, all the time Marsss. How isss ssneaking out at night any different?”

“Causse it'sss night!” He squeaked, flinching a bit as she shook his limbs, “and night isss full of ssscary monsstersss! Why do we have to do thisss at night?”

She let go of his arms, “Marsss, Floran can protect you. Bessidesss, we can only go out asss far asss we need to at night, Floran'sss gift iss ssomething many would want to ssteal.”

She held her hand out to him, he could see her twitching, ready to start bounding up the steps and stones again. She looks so excited, and… Well, he trusted her.

He took her hand. Holding tight.
And she walked slowly. Leading him through the dark. Step by step the two snuck up the canyon. Getting to the surface after what felt like ages.

They wander into the forest a bit, ignoring the sounds of the creatures around them. Grapevine kept a tight grip on Mars’ hand, tugging every moment to guide him. Till she stops him.

“Ta-da!” She lets go of his hand and waves her arms to a tree trunk, it had a roughly carved hole in it. Which se kept waving to.

He went to it, and after giving her a glance, he put his hand into it. In it, he felt something smooth. He grabbed it and pulled it out, a shiny brown and silver rectangle gleamed in the moonlight.

“CHOCOLATE!?!” His squeal wasn’t loud, just excited. Chocolate was one of those things only found on Mammal ships. Grapevine would have had to… Steal it right from the storeroom of enemy ships.

“YOU COULD HAVE DIED GETTING THISSS.”

She giggled maniacally, “Floran knowsss, but you have a ssweet fang, and haven’t been getting any ssweetsss, so Floran decided to fi-”

This was probably the only tackle he would every be able to preform on her. But he hugged her tight. It was a silly thing to get so emotional over, but who cared. He was smiling like crazy.

And shared the chocolate bar.