In the Shadow of Lies
After ten hours of flight, Andrew arrived at the border. He stood outside the cabin in Glaciercrest Pack where I stayed. He raised his hand as if to knock on the door, but he couldn't summon the courage to do so.
In the end, he didn't knock. Instead, he stood outside quietly, letting the wind and snow swallow him whole.
Dawn came. The children from the pack came running to play in the snow. When they saw him huddling by the door, one of them told him, "Ms. Silverclaw left last night. She went up to the mountain with Mr. Wildmaw for a date."