Winter Wonderland
Characters: String, Cait, Dom
Category: gen Warning: none
Challenge:# 2 Snowstorm Word Count: 200
Outside the cockpit, the wind howled, sending tiny ice crystals jetting across jet-black metal. Slowly the snow built up around the wheels, coating heavy ties and pitons, forming drifts in the corners and cowlings.
"Storm's breaking," String muttered to himself, eyes peering out into the slow falling snow. While it was still blowing about, the winds were now gentle, almost playful when compared to the violent bursts during their rapid descent to ground level. Glancing at his co-pilot, he grinned seeing she was sound asleep.
Silently, he prepped the helicopter, removing ground ties, clearing engine cowlings, intake covers, the rotors, and starting the engine. As he did, the weight of his past troubles vanished in the silent playfulness of the snow falling about him.
It was only as the helicopter broke through the edge of the storm that he woke them; just in time to watch the moon playing a silent game of hide and seek with the falling snow and the scurrying clouds. His eyes bright with amused contentment, he listened to their stunned silence, the measured beat of the rotor, and the whisper of the air as he flew through the same burst of white as the moonlight.