Hear the words... feel the chill. A frozen bolt strikes. Catch your breath. Like a brick. Try to breathe. Try to think. Don’t overreact. Is this real. Did your really hear that? Confirmation. The ice flow spreads. It chokes the airway. Rain hits your shoulders and spreads the chill deeper. You’ve been here before. You’re no stranger to this. Now the gut clenches and the breath hits me hard as my vision becomes blurred... why can’t I see? Oh yeah, I remember those things, they’ll reach the brink in a moment and overflow their banks any second now. Look away. Don’t let her see... don’t make her feel worse. But what about me? The ice pushes across my the chest, frozen fire. Breathing hurts again. If I could just get her voice out of my head... that smile. That mind that invaded my own. Now the cold drives into my extremities... It’s not going to stop. I know its’ intent. I know on what it feeds. It crushes against all hope spearing each cell, cutting through me like blades of liquid nitrogen burning as they freeze their target and everything in their path until only a numb pain is left sublimating in their wake. Leaving me... utterly...frozen!
