Cold, not just cold, freezing, frigid. Pale skin turned red, lips cracked, peeling. Pale blue eyes that ached, wishing to close. Rest, just sleep, g i v e u p. She didn’t give up well, her bones ached, tears burned, but she didn’t give up. She never gave up. The cold became part of her, the pain became part of her, and changed her. A girl that was once full of fire became a woman with a heart of ice. The jobs, the work they all became easier. She was determined still, but now, careless of others. It became too easy to kill, to do whatever it took to survive.
She didn’t not forget the warmth of her past, and an unspoken part of her longed for that, to be special, to be something, anything, to someone or anyone. To know a world that wasn’t built on coldness or lies. Years of a lonely existence, years of hard work, years of bitter hatred for what she had become, all melted away by a touch. Something to human, so vital and necessary but foreign to the ice queen. She resist at first, like all creatures, afraid of change, but soon she melts becomes malleable, like metal she will be shaped or shattered by warmth.