[Niflheim]

@ilunga

#722520

Winter had settled like a quiet killer, a blanket of frost some days and flurries of snow the next, the sun hardly visibly these bleary days especially as she trekked further and further towards the mountains, mind making up the dark devils that snapped at her heels, but god they felt so real.

The overcast sky offered nothing but gray, as the salt soaked air was carried on a cold winter's breeze, nostrils flared and the dark woman stiffened, shaking away the cold as if it were nothing. "The ocean must be close." The stoic woman mumbled, wine colored eyes glancing upwards as she broke through the treeline and spied the mountains that bordered the lands to the left.

A long stretch of frosted over plains was before her, and she eyed it with well placed caution before stepping forward. Tall grass yellowed by the cold season swayed in the wind like a golden sea, with each step an odd feeling of familiarity swirled around her, like this place should mean something to her, but that couldn't be possible. Nif would brush the thought off completely, just her mind playing tricks.

Snowflakes began to fall, and if it wasn't silent before it was definitely silent now, besides the wind pushing over the tall grass. She pause when she came to a fairly open spot of exposed earth, Niflheim would sit alone. Raising a paw to one of her bound pieces of fur, batting at it until out dropped a tiny baby tooth. His tooth, wine colored eyes looked carefully upon the tiny little thing, the off-white color, the jagged needle like shape.

Expelling vapors into the air, the woman clenched her eyes shut, paw moving to cradle the tooth. "It should have been me. Why wasn't it me?" Ears pulled back and she tried to steady her breathing to keep the sob that was fighting its way out to be heard.

It was night when you died, my firefly.