Chapter 134: Snow Mound
If it was possible, the township they went through seemed even more ghostlike than the day before.
After the snow fell and heavy winds caused snowdrifts to stack up on the sides of people’s houses, it was hard to imagine that anyone lived in a house looking like that.
However, the oddities didn’t end with how the township looked.
As they rounded the trees that sat at the edge of town before the hill that led up to her grandmother’s house, Irene’s eyebrows lowered when all they saw ahead of them was a white expanse faintly littered with logs and the tops of trees. Her heart began to race as her head swiveled left and right, trying to scan the area for any sign that her grandmother had been there in the first place.
She pulled her hood off as if that was somehow blocking her way. However, it only exposed her to the bright expanse ahead. Even with a cloudy sky, the stark whiteness was a bit blinding. She had to squint her eyes once her face was in the light.
"What on earth?!" Irene exclaimed and she squeezed her knees harder so that Sorrel would ride much faster than before.
"Wait, Irene!" Arthur shouted, but his daughter didn’t hear him because she was already racing up the hill. "It happens every—! Ah, well."
The knight pushed his hood down as well and let out a sigh. He turned to Sir Gunnar and gestured for him to go forth in a much more relaxed manner than Irene was behaving at that moment.
Since Irene was going off in a different direction than he expected—something he couldn’t blame her for considering how bright it was—the knight decided to redirect her.