By the time Owen felt they had stocked up almost enough, Rowan was in a bit of a bind.
Their meat supply was very sufficient, but the vegetable reserves were inadequate. How to preserve them was also a problem.
Edible wild vegetables were hard to find during the Snow Season. Owen only brought back a little each time. Fruit was even scarcer; he didn't know what kind of fruit his partner wanted to eat.
Cotton fruits and golden fruits weren't available this season, and the previous batch had been nearly eaten up by his partner.
Rowan didn't want to eat dried vegetables every day, let alone the fact that there wasn't much sun for him to make dried vegetables anyway.
He tried burying vegetables directly in the snow, but when he dug them up a few days later to check, they were all damp, moldy, and rotten.
Seeing his partner fail at storing wild vegetables, Owen consoled him, "If you want to eat them, I can bring some back every day."
