God, if he’d thought the fields were bad, the lowlands were absolute hell. There was no shelter anywhere from the winds that ripped across the flat ground, leaving his eyes streaming tears that seemed to immediately freeze in his fur. His ears and nose ached constantly and he swore he’d developed a permanent case of the sniffles. He kicked himself for thinking it had been a good idea to follow the god-forsaken animals up north. Sure, they had full bellies, but at what cost? It seemed the cost would be a toe before too long.
The dark man plowed through a large snow drift with a grunt, his teeth chattering as he did so. A string of curses fell from his dark lips as he shook off the snow that had fallen on his back, silver gaze squinting at the nearly blindingly white environment. Spring couldn’t come fast enough.