Chapter 1
Down a stretch of snow, as far as the eye could see, was a forest that glittered and glowed in the dark of the blizzard's night. Creatures and flora of all shapes and sizes, to the most common until the gruesomely bizarre prowled in this dense habitat. Within its heart there were no trees however, as the tallest of crystals and ice grew all around the bare place. As if a palace itself, there crystal steps led within.
Further and further it went as the path grew grim, dark and grey, no longer was there the precious crystal or the cold ice instead laid the hard and calloused rock and stone. As the trail now grows to a halt, at its end was a large circular cavern. Vines crawled up the walls extending towards the top, mosses, trees and the most beautiful of flowers flourished wildly with age and lack of care. How they all managed to survived the harsh environment or lack of it in this place was a mystery. Though, they left a circular patch in the middle with all except the rose dead, scorched and frozen.
A single beam of moonlight shone, passing through a hole above and alighted on the statue in the middle of the cavern. So lifelike, so intricate and beautiful that one could think to fall in love with it such a magnificent piece of art. An angel perhaps, strangely made of ice; her lovely wings spread wide and gown flowing. Yet even as beautiful as she was her gaze was filled with so much sorrow. The roses entwined her form in their thorny caress, their blooms however were as dark as a demon's heart, they too were beautiful but the black rose was marred with poisonous thorns which cure's only its mistress's kiss; they have claimed hundreds of lives who were foolish enough to tread upon her mysterious realm as proven by the many skulls and bones that lay at her feet – some human and the others not.
A hesitant hand clutched at her heart the only foreboding thing was the long glaive she held in her other hand, its icy blade glinting eerily in the moonlight and her cold sad gaze. Though made of ice, her eyes looked as if they could see into your very soul, an ancient sorrow filled their depths what it was no one will know...