Haunted Wood Magic Jubilee

"Why would you care so much, if I stayed alive this winter or not?" Birk asked, being genuinely curious rather than feeling insulted by the other's apparent lack of trust in the man's of the Ice fields ability to strive just fine. 

"Believe me - I have seen the worst already," he then went on. "This one here should be like a piece of cake," the man sad, maybe a bit too boldly and it wasn't that unlikely that he would regret his words in the next few weeks. "And if it is not - we all have the freedom to choose the way we want to go, don't we?"