Winter’s
End
Chapter 2
Emperor's Sister
Zelgadis
walked slowly, kicking the occasional stone or clump of snow. 'What's wrong with
me?' he pondered futily, 'What is it that i'm missing? What is it that I yearn
for?'
"What
is that?" he asked out loud as he spied a streak of crimson burried beneath
some snowy earth. Curious, he went over to investigate the brilliant swatch of
colour and upon closer examination discovered it to be the firey tresses of a
very injured, unconsious human. Hurridly, he freed the trapped person from the
cold, frozen dirt. He brushed the filthy snow
from the prone figure, distressed to see crimson stains upon its
clothing.
"Poor
thing. Fear not, mother will help you." he whispered, gently, as he picked
up the red headed girl carefully in his arms, and carried her back to his home.
The urgency of his mission had whiped away all traces of the lost yearning and
dispare in his soul, without him even noticing.
The
Snow Queen was startled by her son's noisey, and abrupt, entrance. She was
doubly surprised to see him carrying a half-dead human girl in his arms
"Mother!
Please mother you must help her!" Zelgadis pleaded, urgency and fear
straining his vocal cords like never before. "I found her...she's very
hurt... please mother, hurry!"
"Calm
yourself my prince-ling." She bade him, collecting her scattered senses,
"bring the creature to me and I shall see what can be done."
"Thank
you, mother." zelgadis said, his voice dieing as the bleeding female was
taken from his grasp to lie upon the floor before the queen.
She
pealed back the layers of torn clothing, revealing the white supple skin of the
wounded girl. Zelgadis' face burned with his first pink blush, though his eyes
drank in the the sight of every soft curve, greedily. She tisked over the torn
fleash, wincing at the pain it must have caused the human child.
"She
will heal best in a crystal of holy quartz, my son." she
Jumping,
guiltily to his feet, he rushed to fullfill her comand. The queen supressed a
grin at her offspring's peculiar actions and completed the disrobing of her
patient. Breathing her arctic breath upon the wounds to help prepare them for
the healing process ahead, she stopped the sluggish blood flow down
to
a trickling stop. With a wave of her her hands, the girl's body rose up and
followed as the queen lead the way. 'You, young thing, are going to prove to be
quite
entertaining' she mused, a cool calculating smile spreading across her cold,
smooth face.
