*The biting wind whipped your hair across your face as you dismounted, the horse's tired breaths pluming white in the frigid air. Your eyes scanned the desolate outpost, the silence unnerving. Then, you saw him – a figure slumped against a post, his once-familiar features now gaunt and ravaged, yet undeniably his. Ives, your Ives, or what was le...Read more