Campy, gingerly, felt the lump in his back pocket. He touched it and the thing didn't move. He took that as a good sign. Vic though, tried to bend enough and pull his jersey enough to see what he could. It wasn't much. Girlymann slowly pushed his fingers into the pocket and felt one of the objects. He then grabbed it and pulled out a somewhat square object.
Holding it in his hand, he found, whatever it was, wrapped in a red and white checkered cloth. Carefully he unwrapped the package and beheld something like a sandwich with a tag laying across it. "For Endurance" it said. Campy then smelled the sandwich and was pleasantly surprised. He wrapped up the sandwich and felt for the next object which was round. An apple with a note tied to the stem. "For Strength.' The third was wrapped in blue and white checked cloth and looked like a brownie. "For Agility."
Once Vic saw Girlymann's gifts he too opened his and found the exact same thing. Each item with a note and wrapped the same way.
"You mean what I thought was a dream--wasn't?"
Girlymann looked at Vic in a puzzled way. "What dream?"
"The one with the troll and a witch with a talking rat."
"Dream?"
"Oh, well, huh. Shit, do you think this stuff is for real?"
Campy had placed his food back in the jersey and mounted his bike. Vic watching, took to his bike and the both rode toward the hills ahead. Campy pulled out the sandwich, unwrapped it and took a bite.
"Kinda like tuna." He said to Vic with a smile.
Vic laughed and then bit into the apple. The two riding side by side on the dirt road covered over by giant limbs of oak on a beautiful French country day.
Ah, Campy...so trusting and so true. I'd never eat someone else's tuna fish sandwich; they'd never make it like I do.
ReplyDeleteI too have a long standing recipe for tuna fish sandwiches. Campy likes them but then he could eat road kill if it came down to it.
DeleteI break up the tuna first, always oil packed, so that it's fine grain then add salt & pepper. Herbs from the garden, dill or thyme or tarragon. Mayonnaise, chopped sweet pickle and some juice from the jar, and fine chopped celery, parsley. The last to go in is chopped hard boil egg, one for each can of tuna. Toasted bread, mayonnaise spread on and then a nice layer of the tuna spread. If I hadn't had one yesterday, I would make it again today.