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I wasn't sure what she meant by 'here'. There was still a path ahead leading to the second mountain. If anything, the snow looked thicker ahead. I studied it more carefully. It was really deep.

"Ashei…?"

She was looking over her map with Auru. Sera was hanging from a snowy tree.

Ashei looked up, "what is it?"

"How exactly are we going to get through this snow?"

"I figured we'd walk."

"I don't think that's possible."

She handed the map to Auru and walked over to investigate. She frowned.

"Hey, I have an idea!" Sera called, "Why don't we slide down?" We all turned to face her.

"What?" asked Ashei.

Sera dropped down from her branch and gave the tree trunk a hard kick. An ice chunk fell from the tree. She picked it up and showed us. "See?"

Ashei shook her head. "I'm not following."

"Allow me to demonstrate."

"Demonstrate what?"

"Just watch me," Sera said with a wink.

She set down the ice block and stood on it. She gave it a push and raced down the path, sliding over the top of the snow.

"Well I'll be damned. She actually did it," Auru said in disbelief.

Ashei shook her head. "Brilliant."

Why didn't I think of that?

"Well? What are you two waiting for? Let's go." Auru sled down the hill after Sera.

Ashei shrugged and grabbed an ice chunk for me and then grabbed one of her own. As soon as she handed it over to me she took off after Auru. That just left me. I took a deep breath. then I kicked off and shot down the hill. To Ashei, who had been scaling parts of the Snowpeak her entire life, this came as a breeze and she easily steered herself down the side of the hill. I, sadly, had little to no practice maneuvering through snow which was causing problems for me. I stumbled through the snow, struggling to keep my balance and falling behind. Ashei slowed down to help me.

"Are you doing alright, Shad?" Even though I was crashing down the side of a mountain covered in snow in the middle of nowhere it still made my heart flutter to hear her say my name.

"Yeah, I'm just fine-" I was cut off as I hit a pole of a bridge face first and was thrown off my sled. She turned around and stopped her sled next to mine.

"You call that fine?" She questioned. She extended her hand and helped me up.

"No," I sighed. We were really far behind the others now. The blizzard was getting worse.

"Let me help you. Stand like this," she demonstrated. "Then balance like this…and kick off." She grabbed my hand and pulled me with her. I was straining to keep my balance. We'd hardly made it past the bridge when I feel again, only this time I pulled Ashei down with me. She was laughing hysterically.

"I'm hopeless," I muttered.

"No, you're not," She laughed, "You just need to get used to it."

I looked behind her and I realized something was coming towards us. It was a huge mass of white. I suddenly had a creepy feeling that it was a pack of those wolf things.

"Ashei…?"

"What is it?" She was still trying to fight a smile.

"W-What is that?"

She turned around to face the thing speeding towards us. Her eyes grew wide and she looked frightened.

"I don't know!"

"Look out!" I yelled, pulling her out of the way. The mass flew past us. It was too fast for me to get a good look at it. I breathed a sigh of relief.

"That was close a close one."

"Don't hold your breath, it's coming back!"

"What? That's ridiculous…." I looked in the direction the thing went to see that it was coming back our way.

"Run!" Ashei yelled.

"But the snow is too thick!"

Ashei bit her lip. She ran to her ice chunk. "Hop on, Shad!"

She didn't need to ask me twice. I jumped on the back and she pushed off. We sailed off of a ledge. Ashei dodged snowy fir trees as we sped down another hill.

"I thought you were supposed to know all about these creatures?" I asked her.

She shook her head. "I've never been this far into the Snowpeak before!"

The thing was getting closer, though. Although we could've died at that very moment, I was still getting chills from holding on to Ashei's armored shoulders as she steered us away from danger.

The white mass was incredibly close. "Ashei, it's on our tail!"

Then it slammed into us. Ashei screamed. We were thrown into the thick snow. The thing stopped dead in its tracks. Then it ran towards us.