Snow Princess

Chapter 26: The One Who Can See Clear

Recap:

"Both of you stand on the opposite sides of this field please." Eros directed with his fingers, now looking at the field we were standing on.

I looked at Roman who was now walking to one side of the field without any questions while I stood there with many questions. I didn't ask them though because I didn't want to waste the time we had for the lesson. I made my way to the other side of the field, opposite of Roman.

"Good," Eros's voice boomed a little louder than before for both Roman and I to hear him. "Now, let's say you guys are fighting one day about who knows what but you guys want to go at each other's throats. What would you do Luna?"

"I would try to work it out, no matter what, by talking about it," I replied.

Eros looked at Roman after I replied and waited for his answer.

"I would do exactly what Luna would do but I'd probably get air before I do that."

"Hmm, well that's what I don't want you to do right now. Let's say something bad was happening in the middle of you to." Eros said as he put a big manikin in the middle of the field. "What if you couldn't work things out before this thing got into the middle of you both. Just imagine Luna, Roman cheated on you and you hate his guts for it. And Roman, imagine Luna left you without saying anything."

Roman laughed. He probably did because of the time that I had snuck off and he found me.

"I don't think that's a good example," Roman concurred.

"Okay how about, imagine Luna wrapped around someone else's arms. Now you're extremely mad at her."

"Wait Mr. Eros, what if I was forced to be wrapped around someone else's arms and Roman didn't really cheat and everything was just taken out of context?" I questioned.

Roman laughed as Eros glared at us both. "Luna, the whole point of this exercise is to get you mad at each other not try to compromise a situation that hasn't even happened. You can ask as many what if's if you want but the main thing is that you wouldn't have known because of the fact you guys haven't talked about it. So please, just pretend that you both don't know anything and you hate each other for it."

I nodded with understanding while I saw Roman smiling from the corner of my eye, which made me smile. We both knew that, that wasn't going to happen to us.

Eros shook his head. "I love that you guys have enough trust in each other, which is good but not for this exercise. Now back to what I was teaching. You guys want to tear each other's throats out and something is in the middle of you guys. Let's say someone trying to kill Luna." Eros looked to Roman. "How do you deal with the thing in the middle? Don't say anything, just act." Roman stood there, thinking while I stood there confused on how he was going to react. It could go two ways. He could just go around the thing and get to me or fight the manikin to save me but common sense would say 'why fight a manikin? It's a manikin?' I don't think Roman got the memo because he advanced forward and started crawl on all fours.

I found it odd until he did some weird movement where he snapped the manikin's head off with his feet. I think I saw that in one Kung fu movie one time but I wasn't completely sure. When he was done he came running on twos to me and stood protectively in front of me. I just stared at his back as Ero's clapped.

"Good, now Luna it's your turn. Roman please go back to the other side as you were," He said this as he placed another manikin in the center, between us.