Winter Death

First short story I ever wrote.

She staggered,her sleep deprived body finally falling forward."I can't."She muttered to the icy wind and the forest of dead trees. The blood on her black cloak had dried in some spots,but in others it still continued to bleed,making the wet circle widen and make the red stench stronger.The ground felt hard and cold to her body,her face already numbed by the wind's icy breath.She knew the wounds wouldn't close,so they would continue to bleed until her blood soaked into the hard cold ground which might melt the top layer of dirk.She knew she would bleed and bleed until her heart ceased to beat.The end was inevitable,and this she knew,maybe that was why she didn't fear what she could not control.Her head throbbed,but she somehow couldn't feel it,only feel the thump sound it made."Why had he done this?"This question had lain dormant in the back of her mind until now,"why had he done this?"She didn't understand...she had loved him more than life itself...and he had taken both of them away from her.Her vision seemed to be nothing more than shadows and blurs of a cold and dead forest.He hadn't been married,nor she...so why had he looked at her with such anger and hatred in his eyes.She had loved him faithfully,so "why?"She could only ask herself this simple word.Though her vision faltered her eyes still produced the tears that streamed down the side of her face.Had he not loved her like she loved him?She didn't know,but her heart felt heavy when the thought entered her mind.No sobs escaped her lips,she cried silently.her breath was fading,her heart slowing,the black fog that she now saw.A small laugh escaped her lips,where was the light that claimed to be saw>She began to notice it was warming up,or that she was beginning to go numb...lose all her feeling.None of it mattered now though,his face had appeared quite suddenly,love shining in his eyes and happiness radiant in his smile.But now...now she saw him the way she had seen him only hours ago.His eyes,a blazing fire of anger and hatred...the look on his beautiful face...one of disgust.Had she failed him?How?The blood pushed slowly through her veins until it only fluttered,white tears of snow fell around her as she passed her final thought.her final thoughts of him....