Eternal X

"Commander, we've already traveled nearly two li. We can't see the mountain we used as a landmark anymore, either. With snow this heavy, we'll probably get lost if we keep going..." Cruz Knight patted the snow off his breastplate and looked worriedly at the sky, where vast sheets of snow were falling. The biting wind drove the snowflakes howling between heaven and earth. The blizzard had come without warning, giving no one time to prepare. The knight gazed anxiously at the terrible weather and offered his opinion to the female knight ahead.

Freya stopped and breathed into her palms. Her cheeks were red with cold, and her eyebrows were coated in frost. But Freya blinked and replied, "No. We'll go another five hundred meters. They're injured, so they can't have gone far."

"Freya, if they're injured, we should have caught up with them by now. No one can run very far in weather like this." Nemesis's voice came from behind. Everyone turned around. The female knight was as calm as ever as she reminded them in a cold tone, "Something is amiss here. Have you forgotten what Blund and the others said?"

"But it could have been an illusion on the ice plain. Reflected sunlight or the snow shadows of the Crystal Forest could both create a similar false impression—"

"He said he saw wolves. Do you understand what that means?" Nemesis interrupted her. "This storm was brought by wolves. That isn't a good omen. The Min'er People fear wolves because wolves are part of the Twilight, representing misfortune and the destruction of the world."

"But... didn't none of the others see them?" Freya was uncertain herself. She stared into the depths of the falling snow, where everything was a hazy white, and had the distinct feeling that a pair