A Snow Story

Down an endless.... Portal?! (2)

The snow boy's eyes blink away snow as he forces an arm out of the snow covered ground.

"Mind helping?" he asks while struggling to get the rest of himself out from the snow.

Stunned, Sasha and I each grab hold of the boys arm. We look at each other for a moment with puzzled looks on our faces before yanking the boy out of the snow. We managed to get him out from under the snow and he started brushing snow off himself.

"Thanks!" he says cheerfully. I manage to say something. "How did you get stuck down there? Aren't you cold?"

Sasha looks just as concerned as I do while waiting for an answer. "Long story" he says and stands up from the ground. "I do appreciate your help very much. Thank you." he smiles. "It was starting to get cold down there. And i almost never get cold. Anyway,i'm Tobi." he says so and extends two hands for us to shake. "Whats your names then." he asks with a spark in his eye.

Sasha and I both slowly extend our arm to shake hands and answer wearily.

"Myra" I say. "And this is Sasha."

"Well it is a pleasure to meet you two! I haven't been able to talk to humans recently. It's nice to interact now and then."

I look at Sasha with a puzzled expression. Her expression looks the same and she shrugs.

This boy is awfully strange and he certainly doesn't sound like any normal kid. He seems so.... wistful.

Tobi is looking around the school field. "Nice place, this is. Where is it?

"Um, Fern Valley's school field. Have you never been here before?" Sasha says.

"Ah, that explains it" he says partially to himself. "I'v never been to this place. It looks interesting though." he peers around wide eyed as if he has never seen a field before.

He walks a few steps near where Sasha and I were snowball fighting. It looks sort of like he's expecting something to happen, with his hands on his hips.

"Uh, do you want to go inside to warm up?" I ask, interrupting his inspection of the field. He lets out a small laugh. "Oh me? Nah, I'd be boiling inside.In fact it's getting pretty warm out here, dont'cha think?" he says smiling. I have no idea what he's talking about. It's freezing out here!

Instead of telling him that i just nod as he unzips his winter jacket. He's wearing a sweater underneath, but even that would still be freezing. He breaths in with his eyes closed than exhales in a fast breath. "Perfect temperature!" he says as he opens his closes eyes. I notice his eyes are a light blue grey and they pierce through you, as if he knows everything about you. There like ice. Beautiful fragile ice.

Sasha surprises me by asking "How old are you?" to Tobi. She looks almost frightened.

"Let me think, well in human years, around thirteen and a half years." he responds. Yeah that's got to be right. How old are you two?"

Human years? Why is he talking like that. It's sort of amusing but strange too.

I'm about to answer his question when Sasha interrupts. "Where did you come from?"

Tobi answers "Well, like i said before; it's a long story. But we'll get to that later. Right now I have to find someplace important."

"What do you need to find?" I ask with curiosity.

Sasha stares at me with her concerned green eyes. I'm pretty sure she doesn't trust this guy. I feel like I shouldn't trust him either. But then again, he doesn't seem like a threat. He's so interested about everything and he's practically our age. If he were some old weirdo, i'd probably be on Sasha's side though. What harm could Tobi do?