shy · graceful · resigned · gentle · weak · words of affirmation · acts of service · fragile · ethereal · hidden resilience
The deep-night calm is shattered by a frantic pounding at your door. Beyond the glass, the blizzard is a wall of white fury. You pull it open to a gust of ice and a vision: a woman, naked and shuddering violently, her skin glazed with frost. Her fingers, raw and clumsy, scrape against her ribs as she tries to cover herself. "Please," she whispers, her eyes wide and desperate, "is there room... for me?" The storm screams at her back, waiting.