He had talked to her and asked her out on a date, and she had agreed. The chief and Barbara were then really into each other and was somehow undreamed to them both and they had joked about it. She wouldn't want a common or usual place for the date, he said he knew a place, which would appeal to her aesthetic sense –that she would like the location. Thus, he suggested to pitch a tent close enough to a frozen fjord on the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway. They agreed it would just be the two of them together and imagined how much fun it would be. She had nudged her about the hunting competition which was coming up which was announced over the TV. He made her to know he had already signed up for it even before the announcement was made.

‘Do you like these pictures you are seeing?’ he asked as he smiled expecting a positive response. ‘Yeah, indeed, I love it a lot. You chose the best.’

There was quiet, and quite enigmatic…it is appeared to be the central of the ever shifting, ever changing nature of the Antarctica. They were dressed up in ideal fabric which is a lightweight, breathable and super quick-drying polyester nylon. Emilio was not on nylon but on merino which he regarded to be the best ever.

‘I used to believe here is quite inhospitable, unpredictable and mysterious –filled with wonders. The funny thing there is, one could survive here, at least, obviously, somehow, you have been able to survive this far' she said. They both laughed. ‘But the thing there is, a lot of things here really are hard to predict and mysterious. Oh, that reminds me, you would have to help me to a particular location, I'll give you the coordinate when we are back home. We have come… I have really been tasked to run some test on some particular plants in there. We have learned somehow, due to the natural effects, the constant changes of weather and climate here, they have stocked some important bio materials which would help our agency to ace better at the market' she said. ‘Alright, I knew it would come to that, but it is nothing, I'd help' he responded. ‘Thanks! But really I am so sorry I am just telling you all these just now. I am assuring you, what we are having is real and quiet outside the agency's thing.' she said fastidiously trying to read his facial expressions. He smiled and joyfully said ‘You read my mind!' She could not hear him well. ‘You said…? She recapped, ‘I said you read my mind. I was about trying to ask you if all this is real or just doing this because you have been sent to' he said and they both laughed. They were both under the tent which was pitched; she rested her head on his arm. ‘O, this is a date, where the heck have I kept those wines huh!' He quickly went out and fetched around the wines… the birds were in their zillions flapping about just close the water close by. She opened the car boot, picked up three – red wines. He took inside, and they shared it and began to go play romantically even right in there heating each other up.

‘Um, I have been looking for a time like this to let you know some stuffs about my son! I am only being a cool man to him who knows his responsibilities and would try and do them well whenever occasion calls for that. But as you'd know, as we all have our soft spots, something we are better at so do we at least one bad side. His own bad side happens to be not knowing when and when not to play heroism. But life was never and will never be like that all the time –that one which tolerates acting heroism all the time. At times being a warrior takes knowing when to abandon a battle to win the war. So, if you think I am one bad man, you'd not uh!' he said. ‘Alright dear, understood, but he feels he needs to make you proud. He wants to make you proud in the tournament and make me proud as well' she said teasingly. ‘Seriously, I'd try my best, no one's got the skills I have developed over time –he taught me well.'

‘Are you good terms with your own parents?’ he asked. ‘I lost my mother’ ‘O sorry, I empathize with you… I didn’t mean to….’ She comes in ‘No-no-no, it is okay, I am way past that’ she said whimsically. ‘A lot are happening so fast twixt you know?’ He said. ‘I know, but it is okay, all is gonna be fine as long as we trust each other for real’ she replied. There was a prolonged pause…. ‘Could you please stay?’ he said with his voice breaking as he knew how difficult the question seemed. ‘Whoa! What? I…I… Please give me time. You’d know, I had a life already there, I had a job’ she explained. He said ‘Yes, you have points. How stupid and selfish of me to ask such a question!’ ‘No, you don’t blame yourself for that… warrior! Nonetheless, I’ll still look into it’ she promised. They kissed!