The silence and solitude were peaceful at times, and tormenting during others. Weeks of nothing except the snow and wind to keep him company had both seemed to drag on, his effort to survive never-ending. Days blurred together so that Alarick could not really be sure how much time had passed, since he had last seen noteworthy, aside from the prey he hunted.
Today was an exception, though. Here, amidst an otherwise forested terrain, the former hunter found something almost intriguing. Red - with one notable exception - was not a color often found in the natural environment, during the winter months. The environment was typically drab shades of white, brown, or grey.
So to find a few bright red berries left in this field, was an odd thing. Most curiously, sporadic clusters of them had been completely encapsulated in oddly shaped icicles, preserving them almost perfectly. Some of the bushes had even been completely coated in ice, causing the entire area around to sparkle with radiant light, whenever the sun happened to poke out from beyond the clouds. And the former hunter was content to simply stand for a while to observe this rare, beautiful thing.
RE - Alarick, you find a cluster of icicles in a strange formation. AW if anyone's in the area!