Blood, Snow, Butterflies | Once Upon A December

[Entry for the Once Upon A December, @ComeAndSitWithUs Winter Prompt - Unedited - word count: 4k]

Ever since that fateful night where she'd lost everything precious to her, Iliana was frozen in time...trapped in a vicious cycle of endless winter. She was existing in pools of blood and pain, enduring suffocating despondency, and hanging on to a fading past.

Iliana was reduced to a specter of vengeance, numbly killing her way through life. Wherever she went, crimson rivers followed, death reigned, and snow hardened.

Once her goal was achieved, however, Iliana was offered a chance at life again. She found herself surrounded by fluttering butterflies and the promise of a new beginning where snow wasn't red anymore, and her days weren't as empty.

All it took was a chance encounter with a little bundle of life with eyes that set her free and an innocence that breathed life into her frozen soul.