Brian’s Winter
I woke up in the afternoon that day. I couldn’t sleep during the whole night because of the cold. I didn’t have many fire woods left and I used all of what I had left while boiling and eating the moose. In the morning, the air didn’t feel like it was at a freezing point, so I thought about sleeping a little more. In the afternoon, the wind was howling in a low and a loud voice. It sounded like a choir singing. It would be impossible standing outside even with putting on all of the clothings I made with animal skins. The wind would blow me away at least 10 meters. The temperature was unbelievably low too. I guessed it was over -55 degrees. It was colder than the time when the trees exploded. The sounds of gunshots from the tree seemed to be everywhere.
Since I didn’t have any firewood left, I had to go out. However, it was freezing cold. “Is this the end of my life? I will just die of cold just by not saving woods?” I know shouting wouldn’t help, but I felt I was too young, and if I die, everything I did for surviving would be useless. “Why are you carrying me to death! I did nothing wrong to you!” Then I swore at the nature and thought about how I could keep the fire alive to keep myself warm.
I looked around my shelter for some wood inside. There was none. I knew it…. Why did I even bother looking around? Wait. I suddenly thought about the skins of rabbits in the closest tree at my shelter. It could be like wood because it was dry and hard. Then, I can dry the moose’s skins and it would flame all night long.
I put on my clothes and tried to go outside. However, I couldn’t. ‘What if I get blown away into the woods? What if I die from this?’ There was so many thoughts in my head. There wasn’t any time. The sun was about to set.
Winter is really a devil. It didn’t help me and made me suffer from deep coldness. Winter was my stronger enemy than the moose, bear, almost everything. Anyway, I had no choice. So, I ran to the tree and the cold freezed me started from my nose, to my entire face, arms, body, legs, and feet. I couldn’t move my body a inch.
Suddenly, I fell down and there was cold and darkness on my eyes… Then there was my house and I was at outside playing with snow.“Mom! Why is it so cold out here?” Mom cried,”I’m sorry honey. I’m sorry that I have to leave you in darkness…” Then Mom slammed the door with man I didn’t knew. “Mom…? Mom!!”
When I woke up from my dream, it was night. Actually, it was better than the afternoon. The wind stopped and there was only coldness in the air. So, I fetched few of my leathers and went back to my shelter. Then, I thought about the dream. I thought about the guy next to my mom. I couldn’t recognize him at first. Then I remembered that he was the guy who made my mom divorce with dad and married with her. Since I was so tired, I decided to think about it next morning.
