Second chapter
Jacks POV on the little death incident.
next chapter will be in third person
I was just flying around in town around midnight when I saw her. I had been keeping an eye on her recently. Her window had been opened and she crawled out and looked around, like she was making sure she didn't get caught. She crawled down the fire escapes, only wearing a pair of skinny jeans and a t-shirt. But it doesn't look she's freezing.
I follow her to the park where she starts talking into the thin air and she sounds like she's having a real conversation. She says the word Tempora a lot. I have no idea what it means, but it sounds Latin. Night and day is also mentioned a lot, but in relations I can't quite understand. She suddenly stops and looks at a tree. It almost looks like she's listening to it. Then she starts smiling lovingly at it. I have no idea why someone would do that, and I can't figure out why she would do it. She starts walking again and I follow her. She reaches the lake and looks around. Her breath is visible in the air and she looks like she enjoys seeing it. A soar out to the middle of the lake and look at her. She has amazingly green eyes and long brown curly hair. She also has freckles. Suddenly her whole body freezes up and she stares right at me. I freeze up too, wondering if it really is me she's looking at. She looks like she just saw a ghost, which I guess I could be. But suddenly her gaze changes, like she realizes I'm real. She steps out onto the ice and I get scared it might crack under her. But the ice holds and she walks out to me. Her gaze is focused, like I might disappear if she doesn't look at me the whole time. It starts snowing and the flakes land on her softly. I notice that they don't melt. She reaches me and looks me right in the eyes. She reaches out her hand to touch me, and I have no intention of moving. Suddenly I hear a loud crack and she looks down. She looks up at me with fear in her eyes and then the ice breaks. I stand for e few seconds trying to comprehend what happened. Then I look down into the hole. I want to save her, but I'm not sure if I can even touch her. The stuff she said runs through my head. She said her name was Temperance. I decide to try and get her up. I jump in and notice she's already at the bottom. I can see her body is becoming paler and there's not coming bubbles out of lungs. I think she's already dead, but I won't let the lake be her grave. I swim down to her and notice that the weed and branches have already tangled her up, like they're holding her down. I swim over and snap the branches and rip off the weeds. I look at her and notice that I can pull her up now, which I then do. The hole is a bit frozen up, but the ice is so thin it's easy to break. I get her up to the surface and pull her up on the ground.
I look at her and notice she's smiling slightly. It starts snowing again and I see her hair freezing up a bit. I wish I could do something for her, heat her up and bring her back to life somehow, but I can't produce heat. It's still snowing and I stand up and look at her. I squint a bit and notice that the flakes now melt on her skin. It almost looks like it's sucking up the flakes. I shake my head at the thought and walk away. She's just a normal human, the flakes would only melt on her skin, not be absorbed. I look back at her and notice the moon shining down at her, making it look like her skin was glowing. I hear something from the direction she's lying in, and it sounds like some kind of humming. Then my mind starts playing tricks on me, making it look like she's moving a bit, like one would do in their sleep.
I fly off, not needing to look at her anymore. I also overheard her making an agreement to meet with her friends there in the early morning. I know their day will be ruined once they see her, lying cold on the ground and frozen.
End of chapter
The picture for this chapter is up on DA
Just search Rise of the Guardians Tempora, and it should be there.