Chapter 1: Part 1: Fimbulwinter

Year 1

All I feel are sharp pains throughout my body. How long has it been since I started walking? It has probably been just over a day. I haven't taken time to rest because I feel I would collapse and fall over if I did. My feet are numb; my arms are shaking. I can barely see anything. My ears are about to fall off, and the liquid in my body is about to freeze. I feel as though my consciousness could fade at any moment. All I know for sure is the weight of my bag on my back and that I'm walking upwards.

Thoughts run through my mind like how can snow so white clear, and beautiful destroy my senses as it is now? I spent years finding the materials to construct clothes that would be resistant to this cold to climb this mountain at the end of my life, but it barely did anything for me. It's comical. I laugh a little, but then my throat feels a sharp pain. I can barely even open my mouth in this cold the moment snow comes in through my mouth; I feel as though my organs are about to turn into ice. Still, regardless of any of that, I continue to scale this mountain I must.

My body wants to stop, but I refuse. It wants to give up, but I persevere. It keeps telling me you've done enough. It's ok; anyone would die at this point, but I Ignore it. My legs started to buckle; I fell, it seemed my body had enough of me, and while laying in the snow, all I could think was, how comfy is this? It's even softer than my pillow. I feel the strength drain from my body as I embrace the snow. Is this What it means to be a peace when you die?

But I'm not alone. She is still here with me, so I say their names repeatedly in my mind, Dragoste Draga Viata Intrare. And it gives me strength even if just a little all, and I press on even if I can keep going just for one or even two more minutes, it will allow me to give her an even more beautiful sight, and after all, she's done for me I believe she deserves that so I continue to march forward to get a little further.

I go on, but then I feel something under my foot did I hit something I think to myself, then I looked down then I see a child as white as snow.

Shit, what crap? Why is a child here? Even though my body was numb to the bone is still felt a shock from this. I quickly picked the child up to see if it was alive. The child had its eyes closed. I wanted to try checking its pulse, but my body is so numb I doubt I could do it, but then my arms started to wobble shit my strength is falling. I try to look for visual indicators if the child is alive. The child's skin still looks bright, so it seems the child is alive, hopefully. I try to hold the child close to give it heat, but I realize this child isn't cold. It's perfectly warm. What the hell is this child unaffected by the cold these thoughts all pass true my head as I fall to the ground.

Crap, my strength is gone. What the hell am I going to do no one comes to Fimbulwinter unless they have some sort of death wish, so no one would be able to rescue this child, and even if they tried without my gear, anyone would undoubtedly die a few hours in the climb so what I am going to do I feel my mind going blank damn no I can't die like this is what I keep saying in my mind but then wait what the hell the snow is moving away from me it hasn't faded. However, just around the child and me, the snow has gone away from us. It's still raging on wherever I look.

I can see green pastures underneath us where the snow cleared, and light from the sun started to break through the endless blizzard. It's almost as if the blizzard moved to make way for the sun; not even having the time to process this, a path opens up in front of us, illuminated by the sunlight.

I don't even understand what's going on, but my best chance at surviving would be following that before the snow comes back. Even in my old age, I should still be able to do it. I reinforce my body with SE thinking I got to optimize it, to not push my body past the limit. Then I get up, pick the child up, and then walk down the path as fast as possible.

It is no longer violently snowing around me, and the child's body heat is warming my fingers; I still feel pain everywhere, and by reinforcing it, the pain goes down a bit, but this will lead to even worse muscle fatigue later still I continue through it all, I have so many questions why is this child here? Why is this child immune to the cold? Why is the snow clearing? But I put them all on hold and continue down the path as quickly as possible, pushing my old bones, and then eventually, I see a lone house that the snow isn't touching. It isn't even coming close. I see the light from the sun breaking, shining down on the house.

Seeing this, all I can feel is excitement. This is exhilarating. I guess an old man like me can still have thrilling experiences like this, but this is not the time I think to myself while rushing towards the house with the child. I drop my bag so I can reach the house faster. When I arrive at the house, I see the front door open with a pile of snow outside the front door. I wearily head inside and collapse on the floor, and the only thought going through my mind is that it's so so warm. Crap, it seems I overdid it. My body is entirely numb; my consciousness is fading. No, is this where I die? Damn it, this is so unfair. I wanted to die in peace, fulfilled, but not only did I fail at what I intended to do, but then all this fascinating stuff happened right before I died, "damn," I said before falling unconscious.

-Break-

Soft, warm and comfy is this what the afterlife feels like? I think to myself. But really, my ass still itches in the afterlife. I go to scratch, and I realize I'm on a bed. I quickly jump up and open my eyes. I look around and realize I'm in a reasonably big room with a bed in the centre of it. The room is also decorated quite a bit, but then I noticed I'm naked. Who the hell undressed me? Who the hell even brought me here? These though run through my mind while sitting on the bed; then I sigh, saying.

"well, whatever, no use to think about. I should go investigate" then vigorously; I step out from the bed; however, I feel a chilling sensation on my feet when I touched the ground one thought immediately ran through my head ITS COLD going from the warm beds to this freezing cold forced my body to jump back on to the bed looking down to what I felt I saw a pile of snow on the floor but looking at it immediately I remembered that outside the open front door was one pile of snow.

Regardless I still need to go investigate and go look for the kid, is what I thought when I saw the snow now getting off the bed. I looked around for my clothes in the room but couldn't locate them; but I got a chance to look in the mirror, and I thought I might be 78 years old, but my body is still fit as ever. After admiring myself, I tried looking through the drawers in this extravagant room.

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I couldn't find my clothes, but looking around, I found a set of clothes that fit me; while getting dressed, I mutter, "This place is bizarre," but weird things are so much fun; I think to myself with a grin, but now it's time to see what this place is about as I open the door to leave the room.

Exiting the room, I look around and realize I'm on the second floor. Then I walk around and see a door completely covered in snow, so obviously, I go directly to this very unimportant door. Then, as I try to reach for the doorknob, the snow stretches away from the door and turns into multiple spikes of ice which attack me. I move back and see the ice turn back to snow. I try to approach the door again, and when the snow attacks me again, I move back just enough so the ice won't hit me, but then the icicles all converge into one big one to reach me. I dodge and then immediately try to go for the door, but then something pulls me from behind. It seems the giant icicle turned back into snow and formed into a hand to grab me; then, it throws me away from the door. When I land after being thrown, I hit my head against the floor, screaming "ouch," but after raising my head to look at the door, I see the hand of ice with its middle finger up.

"so it's like that" I say, irritated, and then I reinforce my arms with SE and run up to the door to try and break it the hand of ice prepares to intercept me, but I fall on my face and hear a large GROWL, and then I remember, oh yeah, I need food.

I go around the second floor and start opening doors. I can't find any food or a kitchen, but I find a bathroom "no time to think about that now I need food" so I try to find a staircase to descend and in one of the rooms on the first floor I find a kitchen then without hesitation I head to the fridge, but it is empty. "well I guess I'm dead,"

but then I remember my bag had food in it. I run around looking for a door outside. When I find the one I came through, I realize it's closed. I open it and head outside.

When I head out, I see, just like before, that the snow isn't close to the house. It is like a circle has been drawn in the area, and the snowstorm rages on directly outside it, but the sun seems to no longer shine directly on the house. The snowstorm is raging on over the top of the area; looking at this, I think it's more like a dome area has been made where no snow comes close rather than a circle. The is no physical object blocking the snow. It's just avoiding this area.

But more importantly, my bag is a little away from the house. I run to it with the excitement of an 8-year-old seeing their pet capis after it left to drink the blood from unexpecting travellers "but no time to think about now," I say as I rush towards my bag, hungry but after jumping and tackling it but then I feel at this point an all but too familiar sensation "it's freezing" my back was almost as cold as the snow storm I was hiking in, and it was solid as a rock thinking no no I use all the strength in my hands to unzip the frozen bag after checking inside I feel a sensation of instant despair all the food in the bag was frozen My hands and knees are on the green ground in defeat. "CRAP, I'M ABOUT TO DIE FOR THE 7^TH TIME TODAY. WHAT THE HELL"

I got this bag specially made so that it could resist the cold, but it seems while I was hiking, the contents froze over. However, then I remember that my most important item is still here. I rummage through my bag, "crap, this is cold," to find the jar; luckily, it was still ok, at least the most crucial object, the jar isn't frozen "at least you're ok. I should thank Avram for making this jar, though. I guess I won't be seeing him again."

I brought my bag back inside in utter defeat to see if the heat would defrost it eventually, but I would probably be dead by then. In total despair, while hungry, I went outside to circle the house to think of a way not to die. Thoughts going true my head like maybe if I eat my right arm, I might live a little longer, maybe just select parts of my body, but while walking with these negative thoughts, I arrive at the back of the house, and I see my Eden theirs a garden here.

It's not that big, but the fruits growing from there are extremely large. In my utter hunger, I run over and grab one of these oversized fruits and bite into it and realize how much water is inside it. It's like having a refreshing drink right after eating this massive fruit. The fruit was big enough to do me for an entire day.

After eating it, I fell to the floor and had many thoughts. First, I have never seen this type of fruit anywhere around the world. Second, did I really eat some mystery fruit that could have killed me instantly Third, the pile of snow that was irregularly in front of the door was gone. Fourth, the door was closed, so someone had to of taken my clothes off and brought me to my bed. Fifth, where is the child? It just disappeared, and finally, this aftertaste IS GARBAGE. It tastes like someone took a pile of dragon shit and sprinkled it with bugs. Oh GOD, who made this? I try spiting to see if I could get this taste off my tongue. It's horrible. I can't take this. It's so bad that I feel my mind fading "oh no, not again, crap, I'm about to pass out."

-Break-

I wake up. Crap, I guess this is what is meant by the equivalent exchange is what I think as I look at the small garden with these large fruits. How long was I out? Shit, I just realized that I have no way of telling the time without the sun and with my equipment frozen. Am I even sure today was the same day I arrived here? Maybe it's been a few days. That's why I was so hungry. I need to find some way of telling the time, but right now, none of that matters. Now that I'm filled, time for round 2 against that door. Walking inside, I get ready to walk towards the staircase but looking upstairs I see a blue and gold light looking closer it's a pair of eyes it's the child it's staring at me through the upstairs rails "hello I'm captivant what's your name" I say with a smile, but the child screams hysterically and runs away.

Huh, that could have gone better also, did the kid's hair change from white to yellow when it saw me? I should find the kid. As I get upstairs, I see that the door, which was once covered in the snow, is now open with the snow gone, "so I see you've run from my furry," but while looking at the door, I see at the side of my eye the kid looking at me again, its hair is white again strange but no time for that now because is the second time the charm, so I try again "hello I'm captivant what's yo" it runs screaming yet again, and the child's head definitely change from white to yellow as it ran I guess I should leave the kid to run, but I need to make sure it's physical ok and maybe ask some questions away I go. I eagerly walk towards where the kid is. It wasn't hard to find it because of the kids screaming as I walked towards the kid, and it began running faster. Still, being a child, it really can't get that much farther than me, so I catch up in no time, and each time I get close, I try to start a conversation, but the kid keeps running away.

To be honest, I should probably stop because I'm not getting anywhere, but this reminds me of when I used to chase my son and daughter when they were young, so I can't help but enjoy this. After chasing the child for a while, I conclude that a kid this active must be healthy, and it seems the kid is deathly afraid of me. I didn't think anything I could do today would get me any results, so I stopped chasing the kid and screamed at max volume, saying, "I will not harm you, so you want to be friends? This invitation lasts until I'm dead" after saying that I go fetch my jar and return to the room I woke up in today has been a long day for an old man, and I'm tired, so I head to bed then look at the jar and say "honey it seems me and you get to have one final journey together."

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