Title: Winter
Word Count: 120-ish (too lazy to count)
Warnings: Character death
Challenge: #20 Seasons
Notes: For the avatar100 community. (I am illumis)
Winter
It was always winter here. Quiet, and calm, and frozen dead. It was here that his hope first sparked and here that it was destined to rest.
Finally, he breathed smiling, and slept, snuggling into the world's welcoming embrace.
Darkness stained the sky and the colors of the north danced in wild heartbeats. He followed their beat: a breath, and another, and again, and again. The colors swirled beneath his eyelids, with virgin bliss. And the steps of the dance grew stronger and stronger as his heart grew fainter. And louder and laughing in joy, and spinning, faster and faster and faster, the colors danced. And then…
Silence.
And in the silence a sob echoed, shaking the boy it had escaped, as he stared at his enemy's glass eyes.