Inverno - A one shot story

Inverno

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It was a nice winter day, the lake was frozen over, the ground was cover in a nice small layer of snow, while the trees, and other vegetation had a small dusting on top of them.

Well this day was going to be different for Elinore, she decided to wake up early, get ready and sneak out of the house, to finally finish exploring the forest. Since she didn't finish the last time. 

She started walking, looking around and exploring more. After a while she started seeing a clearing, but it wasn't a clearing, it was a lake, a frozen one too. There was something shiny in the middle, and being the explorer that she is, decided to go find out what it was, so she started walking on the ice, carefully, so that she doesn't slip.

Elinore's mom woke up, and when she didn't find her daughter she started looking for her. Thank's to the snow she saw the footprints left behind and soon started following them. When she realize that they led to the forest. The same forest her husband was last seen alive. She started to worry and started looking even faster, yelling her name frantically , she didn't want her daughter to suffer the  same fate as her father. Luckily she could follow the trail left behind.  

However that luck didn't last for long, as it started to snow again, but this time it seem more like a storm. Faster than what she expected, the footprints started to disappear as the new layer of snow cover them and made it look as if nothing ever disturbed it. 

Elinore kept walking on the ice, but stopped when she heard her mother frantically calling her name. She saw her mother running out of the trees, still calling her name, and looking for her until she was spotted, after that she was told to go back to the shore. She was almost to the middle of the lake, she wanted to go see what caught her attention, after that she would go back to the shore. Ignoring her mothers voice, Elinore kept walking to the middle of the lake, telling her mom that it was ok, that she was fine. 

When she got to the middle she saw a knife, but not any knife, no. It was the same one her father used to skin a deer or to kill an animal. She wonder what the knife was doing in the middle of the lake, especially since her dad always carried it around. She was gonna have to ask her mom about it later. Her mom, she was still yelling at her to go back. She decided to grab the knife and show it to her mom once she got back to shore. 

So she started walking back, when the ice beneath her started to crack. She was now scared, she didn't want to fall into the ice cold water. That's when she finally realize what the knife was doing there. Her father must of have fallen into the water, and while doing that he dropped the knife.

Now scared for her life, she started yelling at her mom for help.  Her mother fearing the worst started running towards her, when she heard the ice cracking faster underneath her, she was forced to walk carefully to be able reach her daughter.

When she finally got to her daughter, she carried her on her shoulders and started to walk back carefully, since she didn't want to risk the ice breaking, or slipping due to her fast movements. But the ice keep cracking even more, so she started to run, but the ice was faster, and soon she and her daughter were plummeted into cold freezing water. She tried to get out but a current kept pushing her and the daughter closer to shore, were the ice was thicker, and harder to break. The ice storm did not help either, due to making the ice even harder to break. fighting 

Soon Elinore and her mother started to close their eyes, and lose conscience. They were now at the bottom of the lake, with her father and her mothers husband.

The lake was frozen over, both the lake and  the ground were cover in a nice small layer of snow, while the trees, and other vegetation had a small dusting on top of them. It looked beautiful. As if it was never touched. Nobody ever knew what happened to that small family, other than the fact that they disappear, without a trace.

This along with the poem, shows that winter might be a fantastic, magical time, but to not forget the other "Joys" it has to offer, this being one of them.