Stealing Apples

"Do you call your wife by her last name?" Seth asks, slightly drowsy, covered in pelts.

Tsuki looks over at Seth, "What?"

"You called her Minami before."

"Ah..., yeah. Her full name is Hinata Minami."

"Don't you call lovers in Japan by their first name?"

Tsuki sighs, "Well, we aren't actually lovers, I'm just helping her. That's all you need to know."

"Right..." Seth rolls onto his side, his hand caressing his injured leg. "We'll be coming down the mountain to get our injuries treated. Can Hinata carry heavy things, like, a human?"

"What?"

"We'll have her carry the sniper girl over there." Seth points at the woman from before, Half-Native American. Hinata, sitting a few meters away from their campfire, knees to her chest, nods. "Looks like she can."

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"How much longer will it take?" A man drenched in sweat asks behind another, hair matted and black, eyebrows rigid, a cut going through both. "We've been walking a