She believed in Jack.
(She believed in Jackson Overland.)
How could she not? There was nothing in the world that could keep her big brother down. So, when the lake would freeze fully over almost immediately when it got cold she knew he was there.
It wasn't the first clue that her brother was still there, children lost in the worlds, finding a trail of snow when the sun started to sink.
Frost that formed in the windows that made images that could not be formed by moisture.
Snowball fights, started by no one that would leave the children of the new forming town, feeling a sense of enjoyment that had lost with his death.
She never went out in the snow though.
Never went down to the lake.
(Besides that first day of spring that they searched the lake trying to find something, anything to bury)
(To remember)
Snowballs sometimes would hit her, when she was off to do her duty to help her parents.
If she was hit by a child they would run as she turned, not much older than them but with so much fury.
(When hit by a snowball from no one, she always had to hold herself back from crying)
(How could she want to play, when she couldn't see Jack?)
The first day of spring is the worst. Although more food and the happiness abound through their small village, somehow she feels lonelier than ever.
When winter comes around again she doesn't know whether it's harder or easier.
She knows Jack is there, so why can't she see him?
(The young girl, she knows Jack is there, but believes in Jackson)
(And in the end, he is frost)