Thunder Snow (continued)

I screamed like a wild animal, my desperate voice echoing through the Valley...."LIIIILLLLYYYYY!!!!!!”

Without my mind, my legs raced frantically down the valley towards the cabin. Suspended in time, they felt to be slowly turning to mush beneath me. I fell and rose, fell and struggled again, through the snow and down the way I had come, my heart raging wildly in my chest and reverberating in my ears. My breath threatened to stop altogether as my chest burned and my tears froze and became trails of ice down my face.

The wind rose suddenly and I lost sight of the figure as he neared the cabin. Blowing crystals of ice and snow blinded me and I surged ahead through the white tornado in the direction I knew was home, my last bit of breath screaming her name but I could not hear it. Still screaming my silent warning, I crashed onto the wood landing and nearly tumbled through the door, my legs unfelt beneath me. I ran to her room where I knew I would find him, bent over the sleeping form of my lovely Lilly.