Moonsong Glacier To regard the frost and the boughs

Releasing a heavy breath, she surged on, ignoring the growing call in her chest to slow down and breath. 

But she couldn't! 

He hadn't caught her yet!

Or... had he not wanted to?

This sudden thought made her fumble on a turn. But that was a mistake. Of course it was.

The second she came to a halt, she made herself a target for his larger, barreling figure. And she could only meet this fate with wide eyes, her feet too tangled to duck away in time.