Dear Zen,
We did it! The stones are glowing and there so beautiful Zen! I wish you where here to experience this with us but I know your working hard in the castle. The next time Obi and I come we'll bring stones for everyone. How is everything at the castle? Is Mitsuhide and Kiki well? Izana isn't giving you too much work is he? I hope everything is well.
The stones remind me of your eyes.
With Love,
Shirayuki
Blushing with a silly smile on her face she rolled up the letter and sent it off with the bird. Now all she had to do before the celebration is help set up, she wanted to find Obi first to see if he remembered what he was going to say but in a moment she decided against it. Rushing to the Pharmacy with tons of people scurrying about some creating the stones, some making tea, others creating decorations. Shirayuki wanted to be helpful but it didn't look like they needed any more help, she decided to gather firewood for the event and after a spot opened up she would help make the stones.
Bundling up she set off to the small woods that surrounded Lyrias. She'd gathered firewood with Obi before but never alone, a challenge she was willing to accept.
Later that night Zen received the letter delivered by the messenger bird, smiling be decided to cancel his plans for the next day and head to Lyrias in the morning to celebrate the new discovery.
Shirayuki had finally found a pile of wood, twigs and small logs that she could fit into her bag and carry back to the pharmacy. With a sigh of relief, she started packing her bag full saying to herself "Hopefully this will be enough so Obi won't have to get more." As soon as the bag was on her back again, she looked in the direction she came from, realizing she didn't pay much attention to how she came, she decided to follow her footsteps in the snow covered forest. Her attention then turned to the setting sun, realizing she only had about half an hour before dark the red haired pharmacist started a slight jog. "Oh no Obi is probably worrying about me that's the last thing I want; I didn't know I was out this late!"
Then as if the universe was granting her worse nightmare, snow started to fall from above.
Fear kicked in as her tracks where being covered up by white fluff. The cold seemed to wrap around her in a not so warm embrace, and kiss her nose. She kept going though she had too, I wasn't like her to give up that easily. At this point the sun was just a memory in the sky and the crescent moons light reflected off the snow in a dim reminder of hope.
Keep going.
She kept telling herself that over and over again. She didn't want anyone worrying about her, especially if word got to Zen about this she'd never hear the end of it. If she had to be honest though, she didn't mind it all that much. It showed he cared and she wished she knew how to sow him she cared but it seemed that all she could do was be the damsel in distress. "Not anymore" she thought, she would get out of this, get back to the castle, and help everyone with the preparations. She didn't need anyone to 'save' her.
The snow kept falling.
Shirayuki wondered if the snow was getting heavier when she started seeing figures in the snow in a sort of abstract impressionist way…
