Shiver

Esperanza nodded, her memory must be going she thought and looked over to Chrono with a kind-hearted glance. She continued onward as the sound of crows echoed in her eardrums. She hated the ebony colored birds with a passion and snarled at the ones that could be seen before her. They cawed at her as one began to peck at her face, causing a gash on her cheek, but at least it was not too deep.

"Damn crows!" She barked and smacked the bird when it came close to her paw as it cawed out in surprise. She snarled as the other crows flew off and left them alone as the one that she had smacked lay dead in the snow. Crimson flowed down from its hide as she released her paw.

"Here, you can have it Chrono," she smiled, despite the pain she had been feeling from her cheek when the crow had scratched it. She lied down and watched the snow fall down on the landscape.