As I ran through the cold winter storm blowing outside, I could see a shape in the distance. A shape I had not seen for many years. I walked closer to it and saw that it was a hedgehog shivering in the cold. He looked up at me and smiled. I remembered that smile. For a long time I stared at him and he at me. He said something to me. It was "Hi Shadow...". His voice was quivering. He had no scarf, no mittens, not even a jacket on yet... he was out in this weather. It was like he was begging Mother Nature to take his life. To set him free from all the lonely he had and it looks like she answered yes. I was about to say something but he shook his head. Then... he closed his eyes and fell into the snow. I stared at him because I knew who he was. I knew that voice. I knelt down and felt his temperature. It was freezing cold. I stood up and thought to myself. A royal blue hedgehog that I knew so vividly lay silent face down in the snow. No longer would I see his emerald eyes look at me with such happiness. No longer would I feel his warm touch as he held my hand and cuddled with me. The hedgehog laying face down in the snow was the one I had been looking for all these years: It was Sonic. My one and only love had now passed on. Here I was just standing in the blizzard wrought forth by Mother Nature looking at the body while tears began to roll down my cheek. I couldn't believe he was right there in front of my eyes and I could no longer reach out to him. He could no longer hear me. And I could no longer hear him. I was filled with so much sorrow that I picked him up and as I walked toward a house in the distance I said to him knowing he could not hear me: "Goodbye".