[CABIN] - sender and receiver take shelter in a cabin during a blizzard (from Shaquille, his Dark Tower verse. Please feel free to have him in the Warcraft world!)
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Mar counted her steps in her mind, because every step was her having to lift her knee until up to her chest for the snow was reaching alnmost up to her hips.
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Mar counted her steps in her mind, because when she focused on counting she would not feel the snow soaking through her sandals and socks and how the coldness had numbed her legs until up to her stomach or how her hands were nothing but icy dead clumbs hanging from her arms.
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Mar counted her steps in her mind, because if she would not fill her head with those numbers over and over and over again she would start to think about that she had neither seen nor heard anyone else of the marshing campaign infront or behind her since hours.
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Before her was a wall of falling snow so thick that she could stretch out her arm and see her gloved hand disappear as if eaten by white teeth. 1,2,3
Behind her was the same a wall of falling snow so thick it swallowed eagerly every sound beside her own labored breathing and inched closer, hungry to eat even the noises of her breaths until she was only silent and cold.
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The halforc stomped forward with feet that were too cold to feel.
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Step by step, step by step, step by step. The wind bit past layers of cloth down into her skin until everything burned.
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Step, by, step. Step, by, step.
And than her foot sunk into the snow until up to her knee and instead of hitting even more snow, there was stone beneath. From one moment to another the counting in her head was replaced by the confusion of hitting a stoneplate and promptly before the questions could enter her head- where was she? where were the other soldiers? were they dead? was she lost? was she going to die in the snow? was she lost and alone? Would the snow ever end? would she find the other soldiers again?- she stepped to the side and her feet did not sunk as deep into the snow as before.
Stairs. Stonestairs. Stonestairs leading up to an entrance. Stonestairs leading up to shelter.
The snow had piled so far up around the wooden door at the end of the stairs that there was only a small hole left visible, but the fireshine sneaking between the woodenplanks outside was orange and warm. SHoving the questions- where were her comerades? were they dead? was she walking on their corpses?- away the young woman stomped up the snowcovered stairs and without a second of hestiation- because hestiating meant asking herself the questions, because hestating meant wondering if the other soldiers had left her behind, because hestiating meant wondering of they even noticed that she was lost, because hestiating meant wondering of they were even still alive to wonder if she was missing- she knocked her fist against the wooden door.
"-greetings! I am looking for shelter! No intent for robbery or murder on my part, you have my word. Its too cold for that. Open the door!", the wall of falling snow was so thick that even her words sounded like a whisper. Or maybe she was whispering for her lips felt numb and heavy and words were hard to form:
"No, really, open that door now. I am freezing off my non-existent mentula and frozen -Halforc- on -a- stick is definitve not a future I want for myself. I would be very happy to avoid freezing to death!"
The door stayed closed, closed, closed. The wind continued to bite, bite, bite past her cloak and layers of clothes until it could dig into green, freckled skin sharp like frozen teeth. And Mar shivered, shivered, shivered.
Eventually the word fell out from coldness frozen clenched jaws; barely hearable in the howling wind and the velvet whisper of the falling snow: "...please?"
A second later Mar huffed the ´please´away with a low, frustrated grunt like it was a annoying fly. Under her Gugels hood her freckled ears moved up and down as if she was an irritated deer. Than, instead of continuing to beg, she just started to hammer her fist harder against the door until the metalhinches started to groan in agony under the impact.
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