...The wind swirled madly around Kazune as he ran.
"Shoot, did she wake up already?" he questioned fearfully.
"I'm not going to get anywhere this way." Kazune thought, but he guessed he had no choice but to think of something if he wanted to live.
Mumbling some words, Kazune created a blast of air that lifted him off his feet and carried him quickly across the forest with no friction.
turning to look behind him, Kazune saw that he was far beyond where he once was, and whatever was chasing him down seemed to have gone away or was lost in his wake.
Kazune slammed into a tree before he could turn around to see it. Cussing and swearing the whole way down into the snow once more.
He stood and tried to trudge through the snow, since that wind trick wouldn't work with him knee deep in snow...
"Tsk, I'm not moving anywhere. If i even want a chance to survive this war and being hunted down by an angry snow woman, I need to make it to the plains. At least there I won't sink into deep snow."
Suddenly Kazune stopped dead in his tracks.
He felt a cold sharp hand on his shoulder.
Before he could make a sound, the hand reached up under his armpit and pulled him up above the snow.
The hand spun him around and set him down.
Kazune now faced a humanizing snow woman. It was Karin.
Kazune had expected an angry face but to his surprise her face was red and her eyes were watery.
Unsure of what to say, Kazune stood and looked at her for a moment. He nearly had a heart attack when she started crying to him.
" I woke up and you weren't there! I got scared that you got taken from me!" Karin cried.
She then hit a bewildered Kazune in the gut yelling "BAKA!" at him.
Kazune, now a little angry, glared back at the girl with his stone cold eyes.
"Well you didn't exactly leave me with a safe feeling, did you!" he shouted.
"You tried to kill me, or you at least threatened to! On top of that, your family is the whole instigator of the war!"
Karin looked hurt by Kazune's words and said "Well, from my point of view, you're the enemy..."
Kazune looked at her down-cast eyes and thought about how either side is taught to hate the other, who knows who actually is at fault..
"Besides" Karin said. " I am smart enough to know that you won't hurt me."
"Why would you assume that?" Kazune asked curtly.
"Because, you tried to save me, even if I wasn't in trouble..."