The Cold Days: Part One

I will die up here in the high mountains, she thought. And be like Solanda, Mother's old friend, who vanished as the deer vanish.

(A demon tricked me by looking like a boy).

"You climb too high," the hunter said, squatting down on his haunches and leaning against a boulder. "Nothing eat up here."

Mira finally got her voice: "Why are you here?"

"I follow you." He smiled.

Mira stared down the great mountain, knowing she was trapped, that she had climbed too high where monsters are. He had sta...