Blackfeather Woods spirit cold

"Stop begging," he insisted, and so she did. Muriel fell silent at once, biting her tongue. It was just so hard being out here all by herself, and she was beginning to lose touch with reality. She needed this, and the last thing she wanted to do was screw it up.

"Tell me about the big loud bird," he said, and Muriel complied without hesitation. "It was unlike anything I've ever experienced," she began. "It did not fly like a normal bird. It just hovered there above us, kicking up snow everywhere. It was so loud, I couldn't even hear myself think. We all ran away from it, but it still hurt my dad. There was so much blood everywhere." Truth be told, Muriel still couldn't explain exactly what had happened on that day. Afterward, she, her mother, and her siblings had been unable to hunt enough to feed themselves, and so they had parted ways.