Profound darkness spread out, devoid of the slightest light. The path ahead was invisible, the direction unclear.
A thinly dressed girl walked through the snow until her strength was completely exhausted. She stumbled, kneeling in the snowy ground.
Countless snowflakes eroded Silvia's body, turning into a chilling cold that penetrated her bones.
Little by little, they stripped away her body heat.
Silvia felt her body growing colder by the moment. The blizzard was taking not only her warmth but also the flickering flame of her life, as unstable as a candle in the wind.
That flicker of life slowly dimmed in the storm.
Her physical sensations began to collapse: first, numbness in her hands and feet, then her torso.
Finally, even her consciousness and memory began to be drawn away.
The few precious images in Silvia's memory were fading like mirages, gradually swallowed by the blizzard's icy darkness.
