The Forbidden Frozen Fruit

She stood side-by-side with him among the slowly falling snow. There was something about winter that made everything just a shade quieter than any other time of year. Siobhan closed her eyes and let the softness of it all settle over them. It almost made her want to whisper, but that would be ridiculous. "I imagine they do stay fat. All that sugar, left to ferment," she licked her lips and eyed the glittering globes. Most of the apples were frozen solid, shriveled little things. Anything they could scavenge up now would be black and inedible. It was too bad. "I feel like I've been Aryn's heels as well... you'd think I'd be better at knowing where she is, but twintuition seems like it's all but lost now. I miss her," she murmured, her ears folding back in a moment of sadness. They had been so close when they were young before her condition kept her apart from them all until she'd better learned to manage it. "I feel like I have so much to make up for, you know? Lost time."