playing in the (early) snow

The pale boy waded through the snow, he wasn’t sure how long he’d been walking but at this point he knew he was done with snow and cold. He’d been walking for a long time, at least since he’d left Nippon snow hadn’t been in the forecast but here he was in the storm. Hikaru didn’t think he was going to miss home, but in that moment he really did. Kaiyo was a young wolf, had he stuck with his training he would have been a full fledged shinobi today.

Thankfully the blizzard didn’t give him much time to dwell on that thought. Wind and snow whipped around him, and he was starting to really feel the fatigue of his journey as well as the cold. His white, orange, and black pelt protected him but even his fluffy coat couldn’t keep going forever. Hikaru could feel shivers starting in his legs and it would only be a matter of time before it moved to his whole body. Despite how beautiful the storm was, he was in real danger.

His bright stormy eyes looked up and around, but there was so much snow that he could hardly see more than a few dozen yards ahead of him. Hopeless wasn’t an option, and now that he had the addition of worry in his gut it was time to put everything in overdrive. Kaiyo Pushed himself harder, and trudged through the snow drifts. Eventually he’d find a copse of trees or a cave. Right?