The winter afternoon sun did nothing to the icy world below, it barely made it through the thick clouds to inform those of it presence. High winds blew over the land, making the already chilly day more colder.
Under a bridge sat two children, cuddling together in order to keep warm. They had reached the frozen river and walked upon the ice so that they was no longer leaving a trail in the snow. However this meant that the intruders may of split up to walk either way.
"What if we're only thinking that?" Ai asks as she glances down the way they came, "What if they never found our footprints in the first place?"
"That is another possible," Conan comments as he too turns to look, "Do we really want to take that chance?"
"Edogawa-kun... where do we go from here?" Ai suddenly asks with slight worry in her voice, though her face remained expressionless.
"Once a day a person waits for me, at the town." Conan began to explain, "His job was to take me to Sapporo. However they seen my face, they could have asked around about me."
"... Edogawa-kun, are we going to die?" Ai asks dully, her eyes had a strange far again look, almost like she was not seeing anything before her.
"Do you want to die?" Conan asks bluntly, he did not look at her, he already seen death more times than any child should have growing up, he had grown numb to the concept. There was a small part of him that spoke to him, telling him, that if he did not save this girl, he would lost that piece that made him human.