Moving to Miyagi had been better than I had expected. Coming from Northern Hokkaido, it had been the first time I hadn't seen the mountains and roadways endowed with icy footsteps in the Spring. However, moving from everything I knew had been rather a large shock - nearly every relationship I had made in the first 16 years of my life had imploded, disappeared, forgotten. Everything felt a lot more numb now than it used to, all because my mother had to change her occupation location. I used to love the snowy mountains, but now a whole new snowy mountain had its way into my life.