The Long Winter RPG

[dragoneyes]

Hal finally finished stitching in the last pocket in an early morning rush. He held it up to the light filtering through the frosty windows, he smiled at his work. The material was good and soft, and the cloak had four inside pockets and a string loop on the collar with which to tie the cloak closed.

Gaddy came into the room holding a bowl of porridge.
"I saved you some." he said smiling, "Have you finished the cloak?"
"Yes, it's not got any pattern or anything on it though." said Hal, taking the bowl of porridge and dipping his spoon into it.
"Not much we can do about that now though is it?" Hal didn't say anything, he just looked thoughtfully at the dark green material.

Hal took a mouthful of porridge and made a face.
"What's the matter?" asked Gaddy,
"It's cold!" said Hal indignantly.
"Sorry I finished mine before I brought you yours. Do you still want it?" Gaddy looked hopefully at the bowl.
"I never said I didn't want it." Gaddy's shoulders drooped dissapointedly,
"Do you want to wrap it up?" said Hal through a mouthful of porridge, "There's some string over there." he continued, pointing to a scrap of string peeping out from under a bed. Gaddy used the string to tie up the cloak and pushed it under the bed, then he sat down on the bed.

"I want to learn how to use the bow and arrow." said Gaddy suddenly, Hal looked up at him, caught quite off gaurd by Gaddy's statement.
"Why's that?"
"I've been thinking about it for a while now, well, ever since we were attacked. I realised how helpless I really was, I could barely protect myself. I should've been able to protect the others as well." Gaddy stopped, tears welled up in his eyes. Hal looked at him, quite lost for words, he hadn't realised how much Gaddy had been affected by the ordeal with the dogs. He could've kicked himself, ofcourse he had been affected! Hal sat down next to him and put his arm around him.
"You can't do anything about that now. Ask someone to teach you to shoot, Robin, Dinodas."
"Thankyou Hal." said Gaddy smiling a small smile at him. Hal smiled back and Gaddy got up and left.