How was it he always ended up in these messes. One minute he was tromping about through the snow with his faithful companion- and the next he was stumbling upon something he’d rather not have seen at all.
Then again, he supposed it was only his luck to find such a thing- well, more than a thing he should say. A person in fact, the looks of a beautiful young woman who lay entirely still within the snow. What was the old tale- of skin as pale as snow and lips so blood red? That’s what came to mind in the instant of seeing this girl, but of course, the thought came right along side the other he had.
That being— was she dead?
The thought had him jolting out of his skin, his catchphrase being muttered beneath his breath as he looked around for any sight of footprints to see if she had brought herself there. It seemed there was none left- none fresh apart from his own, which had him even more concerned.
”Great snakes— Snowy, stay boy- don’t touch!” Shooing the curious terrier away, it was then that the young journalist stepped in to kneel down and get a closer look. Any sign of breath should have been seen, yet there were no puffs of smoke, no sign of a raising chest. It only left him one option, and that was to check for a pulse.
The worst part in doing this though was the fact that her skin was ice cold, and he wasn’t sure if it was from he weather- or the obvious concern at hand. That being death. Licking his lips nervously, a hand began to reach out in attempts to place to fingers to her neck for a pulse.
Oh crumbs, he thought to himself, please be a pulse.
She'd expected him to pass -- to hurry on, ignorant of the girl before him, because that was what they all did. Unseeable, untouchable, intangible -- no better than a ghost, than the wind she commanded with a flick of her thin wrist.
Eyes like broken ice and whispered promises snap open upon feeling him form, his warmth too close, and she jerks away, small form seeming to sink into the snowbank upon which she had been prior resting. A sound escapes her lips - frantic, nearly fearful, chirp-like in it's timber. Fragile and fierce like falling snow and blizzards cold enough to melt your blood.
{the surrounding temperature drops
immediately. she doesn't notice.}
Of course he can see you, you idiot.
The question is why?
However, she has no voice to form those words, so she simply stares, lips parted, those wide glass doll eyes searching his own for that which she cannot possibly name.