In the Frozen North

In the Frozen North.

 

>You travelled the the frozen north for many long months, all in the for the name of research.

>Unlike many schoolers of the time, you believed these that ruins of an ancient civilisation as buried under the ice and snow.

>Just waiting for you to discover them and be famous.

>"This is whole trip is pointless and you're an idiot for continuing it."

>And this would be soooooooo much easier without your current travelling companion.

>A Glacies, you knew her from the small village that you both lived in all your live.

>Hell you grew up together and you to use to be such good friends.

>Well that was before she became so cold to you know.

>Always keeping her distance and avoiding you when you tried to talk to her.

>Even when you finally did talk to her she hardly said anything.

>And nooooooooow that you're trying to make a name for yourself, she proclaims that she's coming with you to "Make sure you don't do anything stupid."

>You were hardly stupid, not like the barbaric meatheads how were only interesting in Ale, sex, and things that they could use to bash people's heads in with.

>You where cut from a different cloth though, one that make you an intellectual...

>Though at this moment, you wouldn't mind having some of that meathead endurance right now.

>"For the Love of Ilias why did you come with me then?!"

>"To make sure you don't die, idiot."

>For months, for months that had been her answer.

>And some of her only words to you, other then "Just go back home Idiot. This is pointless Idiot. Adventuring like this will kill you Idiot."

>Always with the Idiot at the end.

>It annoyed you plenty, but at least she was helping out instead of just being a pain in the ass.

>Cooked meals, someone to help set up the tent...

>And speaking of which.

>"Idiot, a storm is coming this way. We have to set up camp."

>You sigh as you look up into the skies, yeah this was going to be one hell of a snow storm...

>And boy was it ever.

>Even with the tent you had brought with you to combat the cold, the ice storms of the frozen north seemed to cut right through it and straight into your bones.

>You shiver in your fur blankets which are doing little to keep the warmth in you.

>Your Glacies friend though was doing just fine and was staring at you with a disproving glare.

>"I told you from the start this was a bad idea, Idiot."

>You roll your eyes and try not to make a sharp comment back at her.

>If something does happen to you, she's the only one that can help really.

>"So what? Do I go back empty handed? You know I can't do that, not after I promised the whole village that I'd return a rich a famous man."

>You'd be the laughing stock of the whole village, and those meatheads would take great pleasure to have a new reason to torment you.

>"Yes, go back empty handed. And alive. You've been in this No-Man's-Land for months now. Something few have done. No one can call you less of a man for doing something they themselves wouldn't dare.

>You shack your head and shiver once more.

>"That's not enough, I want to do this. I need to do this."

>At that, She moves from her side of the tent right over to yours.

>"Damn it you claim to be more intelligent then the other men in the village, but yet here you are, in the middle of a blizzard, trying to prove your own manliness!"

>Instead of the cold "idiot" you usually get from her, her temper seems to have flared up quite a lot.

>And to your surprise, she's climbing into your blanket and huddling right next to you.

>instead of adding to the cold, she was... warm, almost too warm for a woman of her race.

>"I won't stand for it any longer! Once this blizzard has passed you coming with me back home and that's final!"

>And that meant surviving the night, which was not going well at all.

>You were shivering uncontrollably now and it seemed that it was only a matter of time before you would die of the cold.

>"Anon... come on, hold on to me."

>Your Glacies companion wraps her arms around you and tries her best to keep you warm.

>"I g-guess you were right, I a-am g-g-going to die out h-here..."

>She shakes her head and holds you tighter.

>"I said I wasn't going to let that happen and I meant it."

>After another few minutes are so, or no, it must have been an hour, maybe?

>Either way your condition hadn't improved and your could hardly speak now.

>But your Glacies companion wasn't going to give up.

>In fact, she had a plan to warm you right up.

>"Anon, let me lay on top of you."

>Wait, what?

>you couldn't object though, she was already pushing you down onto the bed roll and laying on top of you bringing as much of the furs around you both as she could.

>"It's strange isn't is? Every time I look at you, my body feels so hot... Really hot..."

>True to her word, she did indeed feel hot, like a human woman.

>But that would mean....

>Wow, she was right.

>For all the talk of being smart, you were an idiot.

>"I can't... take it anymore... I feel like I'll melt..."

>She brings her lips closer to yours, almost in slow motion until the gap between you both was closed.

>How long you stayed like that wasn't certain, but once she broke the kiss she seemed very intent on going the next step.

>"Anon... we'll keep each other warm."

>After that, she descends on you once more and keeps you warm all through up the night...

 

>In the following days, you had gone back south to your village.

>No you did not find any glory there, but in the end you came back with something better.