The Emperor Is Searching

They begin to walk down a hill which has stones all over it and Nena begins to smile when the Emperor looks at the part uncomfortably. "Are you scared that you're going to fall?" She asked teasingly and this erupted laughter from the Emperor.

"I'm not scared, my queen, I'm just wowed by all this ..first of all your clothing, your foods and now this."

"Well this is where we get the freshwater  we drink, we have other streams that the path is not as bad as this but you can't drink those." She explains and the Emperor smiles at her in understanding. 

After getting down from the rocky tiny path which other places surrendered with bushes, they made their way to the first stream. Nena stopped the Emperor, went down on her knees and began to roll his pants up so that water wouldn't touch it.

After she is done, they begin to cross the first stream, the undrinkable one which has a very tiny bridge that looks scary but with friendly fishes and frogs.

After they pass the undrinkable stream, they begin heading to the mainstream.

The stream view was nothing the Emperor has seen up close, there is a stream meant for swimming but the water comes from a big rock and that's apparently where the people fetch their drinking water.

"What are you doing?" The Emperor asked when Nena began to loosen her rope.

"I want to get the drinkable water." She replied to him as she completely untied the rope that's holding her wrapper together, followed by the wrapper, she then placed them on a fallen tree that's away from the stream.

"Come inside." She called as she walked inside the water but the Emperor shook his head no.

"Unlike you, I'm not putting on two outfits." He said referring to the tiny piece she tied around her bust and another one which she tied around her waist, which stops a little below her knees and then the dry one which is hanging safely on a tree.

"You have to come in, I brought you here because of this." She persuaded but the Emperor refused. She then began to smile and this made him wary for that's the smile she always has on whenever she's up to something mischievous.

"Whatever you're planning.." The Emperor began to say but she already did it. She used one of the pots and poured him water.

The Emperor refused to smile even when he find her action funny, instead he entered the water and when he got to where she is, still laughing at him, he carried her up and put her inside the water, making sure all her body, from heir to toe are now wet and then he bust out laughing when she put on her annoyed look on.

She begins to chase after him but then something about the look he has on her makes her stop and begin to look at him in question.

"What's it?" She asked, bothered by his look.

"Don't move Kleila, there is a snake behind you." He said and immediately, Nena numb in fear ..she ran to the Emperor who hugged her and at the same time tried to keep her calm so that she wouldn't move. 

He began to think of how to get the snake out without it biting any of them but Nena hit him on the hand. "You scared me!" She yelled, confusing the Emperor who kept trying to make her stand still but she always removed his hands from her waist.

"It doesn't bite, it can't bite because it's inside the water. If it opens its mouth, it will take in water so they don't bite when inside water." She explained but the Emperor refused to have any of it.

She grabs their floating water pot and begins to use it to chase the snake away. She would pour water where the snake is and the snake would run to the other side, she did this until the snake was nowhere to be seen.

"You should have seen your face, you were so scared." She teased. The Emperor pulled her to him before whispering that he was scared because he thought the snake was going to bite her.

Nena pulls her head out from the embrace just to look at her handsome mister and to know if he's telling the truth.

"You like me, I know it!" She yelled excitedly. 

"I love you Kleila." The Emperor said while looking her in the eyes.