Day fled like a criminal, stealing the light away. Darkness fell swiftly in its place, iron-grey. An eerie dun light was all that remained of the day as it dwindled, a soft and foreboding warning of the snowfall to come. Our supper was taken in silence. We had brought a few precious scraps of bread […]
Night was always close at hand on a winter afternoon. Our brief expedition to reconnoitre was done under the threat of twilight, and by the time we rejoined the others, dark clouds had rolled in, turning the sky from white to grey. They had made camp in our absence in the western hollow of a hill. […]
The sun did not emerge as morning turned to afternoon, and we did not stop to rest. Fedxir and Astrid both agreed, in quiet voices, that it was best to make what speed we could during the day when we might have a chance to see the enemy coming. The uniforms worn by Church soldiers […]
Sky, snow, and forest canopy blurred together in one seamless and all-encompassing sweep of purest white. Each step creaked and crunched through the snow, and the air was cold enough that not a single drop of meltwater ran or fell in the forest. Snow draped each twig, bough, and needle, turning the familiar shapes of […]
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