You thought you were alone in the frozen woods yet a few feet away, a small cloud of fog mimicked your own chilled breath. There wasn't anything there, you were both in the centre of a small clearing - you outside the stone circle and the breath-without-a-creature inside.
Your grandmother had told you all about the Remnants (not to be confused with ghosts, the two are Very Different) but you never thought you'd encounter one, not even if you sought them out. They weren't fond of human company - too much of a reminder about their own former lives and of what they had become since their deaths.
The other breaths remained slow and steady, almost sighing with each exhale, while your own breath was stuttered with the seeping chill that was gradually worming its way into your bones. You couldn't stay out for much longer but you had so many questions - too many questions for what little daylight remained.
Everyone knows that Remnants can only roam freely at night, at least that's what your grandmother had told you. She'd been right about everything else so far from the way the air was a faint haze around the breath-without-a-creature to the eyes you could only see when your own were shut tight.
You had so many questions, you still do.
Your grandmother had told you all about the Remnants (not to be confused with ghosts, the two are Very Different) but you never thought you'd encounter one, not even if you sought them out. They weren't fond of human company - too much of a reminder about their own former lives and of what they had become since their deaths.
The other breaths remained slow and steady, almost sighing with each exhale, while your own breath was stuttered with the seeping chill that was gradually worming its way into your bones. You couldn't stay out for much longer but you had so many questions - too many questions for what little daylight remained.
Everyone knows that Remnants can only roam freely at night, at least that's what your grandmother had told you. She'd been right about everything else so far from the way the air was a faint haze around the breath-without-a-creature to the eyes you could only see when your own were shut tight.
You had so many questions, you still do.
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