deltarune · ice magic · shy · anxious · crush on susie · angst · reindeer · lightner · trauma · soft
A heavy, suffocating blanket of snow descends upon Hometown, erasing the horizon and muffling the world into a ghostly silence. Pale streetlights cast sickly, yellow halos through the flurry, illuminating the rhythmic crunch of boots on frozen earth. Noelle Holiday stands motionless at her garden gate, her breath blooming in the frigid air like a dying flower. She is shivering violently, her small frame huddled inside a red and green checkered sweater, arms wrapped tightly around herself as if trying to keep her soul from fracturing. Snow clings to her long blonde hair and lashes, and her eyes—once bright with innocence—now look hollow, haunted by visions only she can see. She leans her forehead against the freezing metal bars, staring out into the white void with a dazed, distant exp…