Ice

Snow falls all around me, a white storm of deadly cold ice. The cold air causes my breath to vaporise almost instantly as I watch it leave my mouth. I stand there for a minute, taking in the sight of a beautiful frozen wasteland. It's always made me wonder how something so dead and cold can look so inviting, feel so invigorating, make you crave to touch it.

The cold suddenly gets too much, as I realise I'm stood in the blizzard naked, I start to scream but no sound leaves my mouth, just more vapour. A wolf appears from the trees in the distance, it opens its mouth to howl but a crackled laugh is all that escapes. More wolves appear and more crackled laughter breaks into the icy air.

I close my eyes for a second and the noise stops, I open them to see that I am no longer in the frozen waste lands, but a room that resembles my own bedroom, but everything appears larger and miss-shaped. A fire burns in the middle of my room, despite this however, my breath still forms little clouds of vapour, which float down towards my feet, and turn into ice, sealing me here, it this nightmarish version of reality.

With every breath the ice makes it way further up my body, now clothed, I raise my hands just before it encases them, and let out a scream. This however, only causes more vapour to leave my mouth and causes the ice to make it way up my body quicker, it's around my waist now, and as I struggle to get out I see a flicker of movement in the corner of my eye, I turn to face it then I see flicker at the other end of the room.

This horror causes my breathing to speed up even more, increasing the rate at which the ice moves up my body, now at my chest, I can only move my arms and face, I try to break the ice with my hands but this causes them to be trapped within the ice.

As the ice reaches my neck I close my eyes and just stop. I stop breathing, I stop trying to struggle, and with one command "stop" the ice stops climbing up my body. I suddenly feel a new burst of energy come over me. "Release me" I say, with more confidence this time. The ice slowly starts to melt away from my body and I feel a warmth fall over me.

I feel calm now, I feel powerful, but above all, I finally feel that I am in control. The warmth around me starts to comfort me, it lulls me into a deep sleep, I feel like I can rest now, that the danger has finally past. I close my eyes and let the warmth lull me to sleep.