Rain pelted New Meridian. A boy stumbled through the streets. His heart no longer beat. He was dead. Step after painful step he tried to make his way home. He tripped and fell to his knees. He was cold. Tears mixed with the rain. Why couldn't she had just lived? Was this the fate she deserved? Was this really meant to be? He was so cold... He looked at his hands. They were a pale blue color. He couldn't feel his fingers. He didn't know what to do. What COULD he do? All of a sudden, a small snowflake landed on his palm. He looked closer at the snowflake. Snow season wasn't for another 5 months. Suddenly he heard a voice. He looked around. No one. He heard it again. This time it sounded like it was coming from below. He looked at the snowflake that lay on his palm. It was a faint whisper. Another delicate snowflake fell on his shoulder, accompanied by another whisper. He looked to the sky. One by one snowflakes filled the sky. Ten of thousands of snowflakes fell to the ground, accompanied by tens of thousands of voices, all talking, shouting, screaming. He tried to cover up his ears but it was no use. They were everywhere. It was agonizing. He became desperate to make it stop. On the ground in front of him he found a sharp broken piece of glass. He crawled toward the glass. He grabbed it a cluched it in his hand. He closed his eyes and raised the sharp glass high with the intention of ending it all. To make it end. To be with her. "STOP" a loud voice demanded. All other voices went silent. Jack's eyes opened. There was no one. "You made a promise... remember?" The voice said. It was the voice of a girl. Jack looked into the darkness of the sky. "W-who are you?" He asked the night. "I'm not sure... Can you tell me who you are? The voice asked. "I-I'm Jack. Jack Winters." He replied. She giggled. "Winter...ironic. Can you tell me where I am?" Jack looked around him yet saw nobody. "I don't know... you tell me." He said. "Interesting... I appear to be in your brain..." the voice said. Then Jack remembered the parasite that Brain Drain had put in his neck. "Parasite? That sounds about right..." the voice said directly voicing Jack's thoughts. How did she- "Our minds seem to be one." She interrupted his thoughts. "I remember... a girl...and a dragon?" She said and suddenly a near perfect replica of Leviathan faced him. The only difference was that he was blue and see through. "How... how did you do that? Is that... ice?" Jack asked astonished. The voice mentally snapped her fingers. "Oh right. I can manipulate Dihydrogen Monoxide in it's most stable form." Jack tried to comprehend what she just said. "Ice. I control ice. Well... we control ice." She said. How was that even possible? Jack thought looking at his hands again. No wonder he was so cold. "What's your name?" Jack asked her. She took a moment to think. "I remember... Gelum. I don't like that name very much." She said. Jack thought for a moment. "Then how about Salacia?" He asked reaching out to the dragon sculpture. "I love it." The dragon said nuzzling into his hand with perfect anatomy. "Wait I remember something else..." she said and in an instant Jack was faced with his beloved again. Squigly...
