“Hmm? Where I am?"

"What is happening?"

"It's so dark.. I can't see anything.."

"Where I am?"

"Hm? My body?"

"I can't move?"

"I don't feel my body?"

"I don't feel anything.."

"Is cold.."

"Ah..so that's it.."

"This is death..."

"I died.."

"What happened with me?"

"How did I die?"

"I... I can't remember."

"Why can't I remember?"

"Well, that doesn't matter, now that I'm already dead."

"Death… is something… well… lonely…."

"It is dark…"

"It's cold.."

"Do not wait.."

"Cold? I thought I wasn't feeling anything when I regained consciousness.."

"But now some time has passed and I'm thinking better, I can still feel my body, I can't move.. but without a doubt I'm still feeling my whole body and also an extreme cold."

"So I'm still alive? But if it goes on like this... At this rate I'll die soon."

"I don't know where I am or how I got here, but if I don't get out of here soon, I'm really going to die."

"Let's go… Let's go! Move body!"

"Move fast! Any part! One leg! One arm! One foot! One hand! Anything!"

"Because my body is so cold, I can't move it."

"Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Damn it!"

One finger starts to move slowly.

"That's it! Got it!"

[I'm feeling it, it's my finger on my right hand.]

"Come on!"

Other fingers of the hand begin to move slowly as well.

[That! That!]

The hand closes.

[I achieved! Now just keep opening and closing my hand until I can move it properly.]

Saying that, the hand was slowly repeating the movements of opening and closing, until it began to move properly.

[Okay, that should be enough, I can feel my arm now too.. So all the movement now, helped to recover my senses a little and body temperature.]

[And this feeling under my hand is… Snow? At least it seems to be, as I can't see anything I can only guess.]

[If so... So I'm surrounded by snow? buried?]

The right arm starts to move slowly.

[Let's see if I can move it to my face… If I can get the snow out of the way.]

Gradually the hand removes the supposed snow from the path towards the face.

[I am getting it! I'm very close to my face.. I can feel it.]

The hand kept removing the supposed snow from the path, until one of his fingers touched something firmly.

[I achieved! I'm feeling! It's my face! Now I just need to remove it from my face and...]

The hand gradually removes what was on top of his face, until he is completely free.

[Okay, now I should be able to open my eyes.]

With a lot of effort, your eyes slowly open.

[My vision is a little blurry from having been with them closed for so long, but I'm finally seeing what's in front of me...]

[It's still pretty dark in here, but I can see something now... It was really snow.]

[Okay, now that I can see what I'm doing, I need to shovel snow off my other arm and get as far away as I can from the rest of my body.]

Gradually he was removing the snow from his left arm and then pushing away the rest of the snow that was preventing his body from moving. He was a young boy.

[Well, I'm not totally free here, but I can finally see my body properly.]

[Now, dig my way out of here, before I freeze to death.]

The boy starts digging in the snow above him to try to get out of there.

[This is going to be a long job, but I'm running out of time here...]

Suddenly the boy stops digging.

[What if I'm digging in the wrong direction? I might be going deeper.]

[I need to confirm the direction, my mouth is very dry… So I will have to use my blood.]

The boy bites his hand and looks at the dripping blood.

[Actually I was heading in the wrong direction, quite the opposite.]

Blood was dripping in the direction he was digging.

[Damn, if I had continued I would have died even faster.]

[Well now I know which direction I should go so just start digging in the right direction this time.]

[But how did I know that by doing this, I would be able to know which direction to take under the snow?]

[I don't remember, I just knew… No it doesn't matter now, I have to get out of here as soon as possible, my body is starting to freeze.]

He starts digging quickly, his hands were already red from the cold, even the blood that was dripping before had already frozen, he could barely stand it.

[If I stop for even a moment I won't be able to go back, my body is exhausted, heavy and cold...]

[If I stop I will lose consciousness and die here, so as much as it's hurting and it's hard, I can't stop, no matter what.]

He kept digging non-stop, and after a long time, his left hand reaches an open space with no snow.

[That is..]

The boy perks up and starts digging even faster, until then he can see out of the snow.

[I can see outside.. Although with so much snow it's complicated..] (Boy)

He started to force his way out and after a lot of effort finally managed to get his right hand out of the snow.

[Now just pull the rest of my body out..] (Boy)

Forcing his left hand against the snow below him, he pushed his body with all his remaining strength and finally stuck his head out of the snow.

“Ergh! I'm finally out of the snow.." (Boy)

“Ergh, ah, ah, even so, it's hard to breathe amidst all this snow and this cold..” (Boy)

Barely able to keep an eye on his right arm that was in front of him, he supported all his weight on top of it, thus managing to pull his body a little more to the surface and with that he managed to get his left arm out of the snow as well.

"That! Almost there!" (Boy)

Leaning on his two arms, he managed to gradually pull the rest of his body out of the snow, but at the same time he found himself prostrate on top of the snow, barely able to keep his face and chest away from the snow with his weakened arms.

"Damn it! That was hard! But I'm finally free!" (Boy)

It was a young boy, who was now leaning on his arms to keep from falling flat on the snow.

“Finally I made it out of all this snow! Finally! I thought I was going to freeze to death.” (Boy)

"We will! I finally got out from under all this snow, I need to get up and get out of here.” (Boy)

Leaning on his knee with difficulty, he slowly got to his feet, staggering to his feet.

That's when he saw in front of him where he was, a vast nothingness, everything around him was white, there was nothing but trees and snow in front of him, while behind him was a cliff.

“Everywhere I look there is only snow and behind me a cliff..” (Boy)

“So where am I? I don’t remember this region.” (Boy)

"How did I get here?" (Boy)

“Did I fall from up there?” (Boy)

"What was I doing?" (Boy)

“Hmm? I can't remember... What happened?”

He places his hand on his head for a moment and his expression changes.

“Was I going somewhere? Was I attacked by some monster?” (Boy)

“Damn I can’t remember what happened..” (Boy)

“No... Wait...” (Boy)

"Name? My name?" (Boy)

"Who I am? I can't remember?” (Boy)

“No, it's not just that… I can't remember anything, not just about myself.. Where did I come from? What place is this? What was I doing? How did I get here? I don't remember anything at all..” (Boy)

"What the hell is this? What happened with me?" (Boy)

[I was going somewhere and got attacked? Or does it just fall?] (Boy)

“I really can't remember.. Damn it!” (Boy)

As he said that, his eyes started to close for a moment and he started to lower his head.

“Hmm?” (Boy)

He staggers and loses his balance and falls to his knees just keeping his hands against the floor.

"Damn, I can't be careless, for a moment I started to lose consciousness." (Boy)

“Looks like I'm in a worse state than I thought” (Boy)

[If I continue like this, I'm really going to die..] (Boy)

The boy staggers to his feet again with difficulty.

[So none of that matters now, if I stay here in this state.. It'll be the real end of me this time.] (Boy)

[I need to get my body moving and get out of here or I'll freeze to death.] (Boy)

He looks back towards the top of the cliff.

[Maybe coming back from where I fell is probably the quickest way to find other people.. More…] (Boy)

[Climbing this cliff is impossible in this state… And since I can't see the end of this wall in both directions… Going around and up seems unlikely too.] (Boy)

[So my only option is to go down the mountain..] (Boy)

[Further ahead all I see is snow, there doesn't seem to be any change in this scenery of white vastness in kilometers...] (Boy)

[Ergh… my whole body is aching..] (Boy)

[It's not like I have a choice, that's what you're telling me isn't it?] (Boy)

The boy starts straight down the mountain.

[To keep walking through all this snow in this state is practically unbearable, but even with all this pain, the only thing keeping my body upright is my desire to survive.]

[The day is almost over and the sun is barely visible anymore, if it gets dark and I'm still on the mountain my chances of surviving have dropped dramatically.]

The boy stops and looks back.

[Looking back I can barely see the cliff, being in the middle of these trees also makes my vision difficult, but I have to keep it as my reference point so I don't get lost.]

He walks back faster.

[Still, I need to hurry even if it increases the pain even more.]

Some time later.

[Walking is proving to be an even bigger challenge, each step is weighing a ton, my body is heavy, I feel like I'm close to my limit, if I stop for a second I won't be able to move anymore.] (Boy)

"I can't stop here, die like this, not knowing anything, my life can't end like this." (Boy)

[Keeping that in mind I'll keep pushing my body forward.. I'll keep pushing my body step by step...] (Boy)

Until finally, he spotted what appeared to be the first change in the landscape, there were no more trees ahead and there was a decline right after them.

“A decline?” (Boy)

Upon reaching it, he saw that the decline was a long descent to the foot of the mountain and a little further on, he could see a city.

"A city? It is a city!!" (Boy)

The boy smiles, he could barely contain his euphoria.

“If I can get to her, I will surely survive! I just... I just need to get to her!” (Boy)

At that moment, the emotion of having a little hope was so great, that he ended up moving his body without thinking and started to run down that long descent, at the same time laughing with happiness for thinking that now he would be safe when he got there.

But while he was running, enraptured by that momentary joy, he lost his balance and ended up falling, which caused him to go rolling and hitting the ground several times until he finally came to a stop covered in snow.

“Oh, that hurt like hell, I think I got too excited.” (Boy)

The boy starts to slowly raise his head and then he realizes he was at the foot of the mountain.

"Eh? Did I roll all the way here?” (Boy)

“So losing your balance wasn't so bad after all.” (Boy)

The boy smiles.

[Well, that being said.. My body is probably much worse than before, I can barely feel anything but pain.] (Boy)

He starts to get up, leaning on his arms when..

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH” (Boy)

A scream echoed from his mouth and at the same time he fell onto the snow again.

[Eh? What was there? All this pain in my right arm wasn't like the pains I was feeling before, it was much more excruciating.] (Boy)

The boy turns around in the snow and lifts his right arm with great difficulty towards his face and then sees him facing the opposite direction.

[It's broken… It was during the fall… Damn, that hurts a lot.. It wasn't so lucky after all.] (Boy)

The boy turns around in the snow again, and starts to get up using only his left arm.

[I should have been more careful, well it doesn't matter now. I can already see the entrance to the City from here, so I just have to hang on until I get there.] (Boy)

After standing, he starts walking towards the entrance of the City.

[Walking is getting more unbearable with every step.. Will I make it there? No.. I have to make it.. Or all this pain I've endured so far will have been in vain… Even if my body breaks more along the way, even if the pain only continues to increase, to a point where I can't. no more thinking straight because of her… I'll keep walking in a straight line without stopping until I get there.] (Boy)

With these thoughts, the boy continued walking in a straight line towards the city gate, and after a few hours, he finally managed to catch a glimpse of the gate up close.

One of the two guards at the gate sees a figure heading towards them in the distance.

“Hey, are you seeing that? It looks like a person coming this way. (Guard 1)

"What are you talking about? There's no way anyone could be walking here after the blizzard they had earlier.” (Guard 2)

As he says this, the guard looks in the same direction as the other and sees the same figure coming towards them in the distance.

“It can only be a joke, who would be stupid to go out right after a blizzard?” (Guard 2)

"I don't know, but he doesn't seem to be doing very well." (Guard 1)

The boy slightly raises his face as he continues to walk steadily.

[I can see… I can see the entrance gate to the City, I'm so close… So close that I… I can even see it.. The guards running on this.. . Direction..] (Boy)

The boy finally collapses and falls into the snow.