In a fantasy world, on the far north, lies a small town, more like a village. Smoke coming out from chimneys and the scent of burning wood and fresh cooked meal are filling up the air while townspeople chatting out and inside buildings. Children are playing, throwing snowballs at each other, pretending that they are fighting in a heroic battle, protecting the royal family. Others are building snowmen or making snow angels.

Joy and happiness could be seen all over the settlement. No wonder why. It is the second half of December. These days were spent together with family and relatives in love.

Not far from the town, located in the mountains, lies an abandoned castle. Or maybe not so abandoned. In fact, a girl lived there. A young looking sorceress hedgehog girl. She had blue eyes, blue as the frozen water in a crystal clear pond. Her fur was pale pink as if the snow soaked in it and changed its color. The lips of hers were purplish like she was out in the cold for quite a long time. Except, she was not affected by the cold at all. Attesting it, when she exhaled air, steam did not come out from behind her lips, nor from her small, pretty nose.

The mysterious young lady was standing on the balcony of the highest tower. Behind her, stood a large golem, made from the mixture of ice and snow. It was standing idle right until the moment the girl turned back and walked to it.

"Thank you. Would you take me back now?" said the girl in a faint but definite voice.

The ice golem let out a semi loud sound of moaning and reached out its large palms to the mistress and held her close to the large body of snow-ice chunk that was the creature's body. Then walked to the door and stopped before it. It starred down into the massive gap below. You might ask how the owners of the castle walked up here. Well this tower obviously had stairs that let them up here. Furthermore this was an actual and used bedroom back when the owners were alive. What happened to the castle then, you ask. It got besieged couple hundred years ago and around half of it got destroyed. A rock or two from a catapult or a trebuchet and the entire room got destroyed along with the stairs.

It jumped down into the huge gap and within moments, they were on the bottom, inside the main building. It then released the girl and she dusted the snow off from her tattered clothes that she was wearing every time.

"Lucky that I'm not affected by the cold. I'd have frozen to death countless times over the years I have spent here." she sighed then began walking aimlessly while her monumental companion was mimicking her every move.

"The days of love, eh? Give me a break. I needed to flee here from the witch hunters back then. Then the townspeople started spreading rumors about me that aren't true." said the girl to the golem, like it understood what she was saying. But no, it did not.

She crossed her arms on her chest like and started sobbing silently. Then shivered like she felt cold. But in fact, this was the cold feeling of loneliness. And hopelessness.

"I…..I never hurt anyone."