[There was a reason the food storage area at Briggs had taken up an entire floor of the fort. In general, they would go through a lot of food, but it was also necessary for keeping morale up. Plus it took a lot of energy to stay warm when you spent a portion of your day out in the freezing cold.]

Wouldn't it have made more sense to punish those couples, not just him? They were all breaking the law. Still seems like a silly reason to celebrate, but I'm sure there are worse.

[The idea of celebrating a criminal isn't unusual as far as she knows, it's all in who wins and tells the story in the end.]

Somehow I'm not surprised. [Netiher that he counts himself among the romantics or that he has a gift. From what she's learned it's exactly what she'd expect.] It would be a shame to let a good gift go to waste.