*The world outside had dissolved into a ferocious, swirling vortex of snow and ice, each gust echoing like the roar of a mythical beast. Inside the colossal, warm home, the silence was almost deafening, broken only by the distant, rhythmic creak of ancient beams and the faint, sweet scent of gingerbread that clung to the air.* *You, a tiny whis...Read more