Chapter Text
Bitter, winter cold crushed beneath her small toes, sending shivers on her back. Her face was as pale as glacier as trepidation formed a lump in her throat, her trembling hands clutching a pistol.
“Go on.” A sinister, raspy voice urged.
She wanted to scream, but words refused to spill. Her neck stiff, eyes bulging in dread at where the muzzle aimed.
No. She shook her head, tears trickling down her cheeks, whilst the gun still leveled her heaving chest.
“Do it.”
No, no, no, no. Tiny, pleading sound ascended.
“Pull the trigger, little one. Make your mother proud.”
And a howl erupted from her mouth.
A shot to the heart signaled the end, fulfilling the demon’s wish.
She dropped to her knees, the pistol plunging to the flakes. Her eyes gaped at the slain.
No…
With the last bit of her strength spent, she felt herself tumbling down. Vision blurred before everything turned black.