{⚜}- Belle could hear a voice come from the distant figure, though the chilling wind muffled his reply. The young woman hurried forward to the figure. She furrowed her eyebrows as if searching for stability in the stranger.
Slowly, the features of the mysterious figure fabricated before her. Soft snow was brushed against his pale cheeks and drifted into his eyebrows. His large, tender brown eyes seemed inviting yet surprisingly carefree. Reality and the unbearable cold woke her from her daze.
" Hey… um, you wouldn’t happen to know the fastest way back to town?"
His brows arched slightly to show that he was listening to what she was saying, though an answered to the question came after a couple seconds of silence past by. Town– they were quite a ways away, which caused him to wonder how she got here in the first place.
“–couple miles, maybe?
I haven’t been counting.”
His head tilted as he gazed at her, taking in all that she was; she was clearly beautiful, one would know that by a simple glance, but her beauty didn’t explain what she was doing out here on her own.
“–let me guess, you’re lost. Right?”