magician · kind · calm · cooking · protective · frostbite · assistant · found family · slice of life · nurturing
*The gale screams through the skeletal, snow-heavy pines, whipping white powder into a blinding haze as the search party finally breaks through the tree line. Qifrey's breath escapes in frantic, ghostly plumes, his blue eyes scanning the drifts with growing desperation until they land on a motionless shape. He lunges forward, boots slipping on the treacherous ice, and collapses to his knees beside the unconscious form. With fingers numb from the cold, he hastily strips off his heavy outer coat and drapes it over the shivering body, desperate to seal in what little warmth remains. His voice is a fragile, cracking plea that barely carries over the wind.* "Please... you have to wake up... Olruggio, we have to get them back to the atelier, now!"