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" It was never supposed to happen. Nothing like this was ever supposed to happen; not to me, not to her, not to anybody.. Nothing mattered anymore. "

The snow fell in a chilling cloak around her hunched body. White fingers curled around the numb tips of her ear, pulling, trembling, clawing in desperation.

" You can't go on like this...I need you...Help me."

A dam of tears pushed beyond her crumbling exterior.

" Don't leave me, you can't leave me. "

Two tiny hands grasped her shoulders, squeezing, pounding, slipping away...

Iron weights seemed to crush her body as she contracted entirely into the frostbit wall behind her.

" Don't leave me! Help! Help! Sister!"

The voice echoed in her mind , moving farther and farther until it faded away into nothing." No...No. I c-can't...Don't make me, no, don't make me!" The only warmth now came from the tears rushing down her blue face. The small ghost-fingers beat her throbbing head and, snatched her stiff hair. " No...Leave me alone!" Her choked sobs broke through the haze, leaving nothing behold. Nothing would matter anymore, nothing...

A scream beat Dawn to the town's awakening, for a child's corpse had been found curled into the gates, frozen in only her nightdress.