December 10th
"Let's get going" Winphur said and packed the last things in his helicopter. Noila and Sesu were already in it, ready to take off. A cold win had started to blow from the north, Winphur had found warm cloths for the two dwarfen children. Noila was almost blinded by a huge red hood. Sesu had a 3 meter long neck scarf tied around his neck, covering his mouth and nose. None of them could see anything.
Winphur jumped into the helicopter and two goblins ran to them. One swung the propeller and the other removed the blocks under it, so they could take of. To begin with it was really noisy and Noila was afraid it would break, but after a few "coughs" the helicopter started to lift higher and higher. Soon K3 was just a dot under them and they could see the whole area under them. Noila had to lift up the hood to look out, but the wind almost took it. So she kept it down, which was ok for her, because the helicopter was still very noisy and she was afraid it would crash, if she moved around to much.
Sesu dared to look out, and he was amazed and scared of what he saw at the same time.
"Winphur?" asked he through the noise, "what is that black spot next to K3?"
"Oh that!" yelled Winphur while making the helicopter go higher and higher. "About a year ago, when K3 opened, they build a spot for helicopters to land on. But a lot of the crashed. Helicopters where really knew back then. The first models had a hard time landing, but they have gotten better with the new models"
"And what is this?" asked Noila, "a new or an old model?"
"This baby is old, one of the finest, one of the first that was build, but I've never had any trouble with her. She is sweet as the day is long" Winphur smiled. The helicopter made a bump and the engine started to smoke. Winphur started to press a lot of buttons and the smoke disappeared again.
"are you ready, kids?" he asked.
"For what?" Sesu asked, his ears felt like ice cubes in the wind.
"For flying of course" Winphur smiled.
"I thought we did already" Noila shooked.
"No, we where just getting up, now we are going forward" at the same time Winphur made the helicopter go straight forward, heading for two mountains in the distance. He laughed a deep laughter and Sesu was wondering if it was the laughter that made the plain shake that much.
"This is life!" Winphur yelled through the noise of the engine and the howling of the wind.
"If it is, I prefer whatever it was we had before this" Noila mumbled, but no one heard her.
She covered up in the button of the helicopter, trying to think of something else but the shaking and the noise made it hard for her. She started to think about her parents and suddenly she wished she had never followed Sesu and just told her mom what he was up to.
Sesu was on the seat over her, looking out. The view was amazing. Snow and mountains everywhere, and the sky were so clear. Under them raised a giant blue glacier, it started back at K3, which he could hardly see anymore, and continued up between the mountains. It looked like it had no end. He loved it. Growing up a place where there was always snow, made him love it, and this looked amazing.
Suddenly ahead of them rose a giant mountain. It looked like it had no end that it just continued up in the skies. Sesu wondered if that could be the mountain where Father Winter lived.