Among Friends

The following is a bit of alternative fiction based on certain characters from the Xenaverse. It is not meant to infringe on anyone else's rights. If you don't agree or disapprove, please go read something else.

Bitterly cold wind whistled viciously past his ears. The woolen cap and metal helm hardly helped at all. The guard hunched his shoulders and crossed his arms. He shivered and looked bleakly, somewhat fearfully out into the forbidding white blanketed forest. Unfriendly and unknowable wails emanated from its depth at odd moments, breaking his concentration. though he could hardly call the wandering his mind took, "concentration." His belly rumbled in disapproval of the noise and its emptiness and he stamped his feet to break the frigid tingle that had begun to take over his toes. His thoughts turned grim in memory of lost fellows who'd gone to explore the noise in previous times and he vowed not to go alone into that dark wood. There had been too many blooded bodies, only recognizable by the uniforms and the day. An owl hooted in the distance, and the guard winced. Athena hadn't been friendly to his camp of late. Of course, since that last first battle there'd not been anything so glorious. Just day after day of this horrible cold wind and wretched unseasonal snow. They were *still* waiting for the supplies. Glumly the guard stared at the unlit torch and rubbed his frosted mittened palms together. Then he looked up at the clouded starlit sky and shivered. It was going to be a another long night.

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