Yuri
He was out in the woods walking toward the next town, when he’d seen her. A naked woman out in the snow, she was huddled there, her arms wrapped around herself, sitting against a tree, her head was down on her knees. Trying to keep warm, he thought to himself absently.
Though his hearing picked up a steady heartbeat, and regular even breathing, it surprised him a little, that there was no uncontrollable shivering or the chattering of teeth. He breathed her in and smelled that she was human.
He wondered how long she had been out here in the snow? Was she lost? Unconscious and on her way to being hyperthermic, she was going to die out here if he left her sitting there. She wasn’t his mission, but he couldn’t leave a human woman to freeze out in the snow in the middle of winter.
He
