Children Of Frost (Book 1: Spirit Tales)

Chapter Eleven- Winter's Pride

Winter hated snow storms, they reminded her of her own rage. Her own anger, something she thought she had control over.

Hiding in a ice cave wasn't helping, but it looked strange. Like it had been formed from the water underneath the ice. Small groups of fish would swam through the walls, scattering the moment she put her hand near them.

"Hate them, no hate her," Winter muttered to herself, putting her hand on her necklace. She didn't know how the others didn't see it, or maybe they just didn't care. "Stupid moron for opening her mouth."

"Whose the moron?" a voice asked and she turned around, her hand on the bow across her back. "Hey, hey. I'm your brother?"

"Alex?"

"Who else?"

"Rose?"

"Don't worry, I'm here too," Rose said from her place at the entrance. Looking at them, Winter knew they weren't solid, she could see through them. "Where are the others? I'd doubt they'd leave you. Who are the others?"

"Rose... I asked a question," Alex said looking at her, before looking at Winter who was sitting on her bag, waiting for the storm to pass. "So whose the moron?"

"Spring," Winter told him, putting her bow on her lap, her arrows on her side. Jasmine had given them to her, she even promised that she wouldn't run out, no matter how many she used. "I had a fight with Spring, over something silly. Then again, the others didn't stop her her, nor did they stop me."

"Spring Petunia?" Alex asked if he had lived both he and Spring would've gotten married, both Dylan and Hunter had always liked the Petunia family. "Who are the others?"

"Autumn, Summer and Luna."

"They must have changed."

"Of course they have, we've been gone for eight cycles," Rose said rolling her eyes. "And to think that Hunter wanted you to marry Spring. What she would be in her sixteenth cycle?"

"Who old are you?" Winter asked. She didn't know their cycle, not that she cared. But it would be nice to know how old her siblings were. "You know my and Lily's cycle. Lily would know yours."

"We're about the same cycle as Autumn and Summer would be," Alex told her. He knew those two, they would have been in their ninth cycle when it happened, while Lily was in her sixth. "We knew them, but as we were 'adults' both of us didn't spend a lot of time in the village."

"Seventeen?"

"She is still a nut job?" Rose asked. Both Alex and Winter looked at her, wondering what she was talking about. "Spring? She is still a nut case."

"Eight or sixteen, she's still a nut case," Winter told her. She swore that girl never changed, all they had to wait for, was for Spring to start seeing things. "I don't think she'll ever change."

"I can't believe she's still here," Alex muttered to himself. From he remembered Hunter's father got rid of anyone who was a nut case. "Thought Bane got rid of anyone he didn't like. But she's female, that might be the reason."

"Heaven forbids we kill females," Rose teased a smile on her face. Winter just wondered what they were talking about. She knew it was about Spring, but who was Bane? "Children are the reason punishments for women weren't as bad, not well not as bad as they would be for a male."

"Really?" Winter asked. Now that she thought about, she had seen a girl had a slap on the wrist, while a male, who had done the same thing, was pulled over his father's lap. She was sure that he wasn't able to sit for a while. "I can see it, they really only see us for that reason."