“Perhaps this wasn’t
such a good idea after all,” Anise muttered as she looked out the window. She
could see nothing but white. Snow was falling fast and furious this lonely
winter’s afternoon. Already three inches
had fallen in as many hours and they were saying the storm wouldn’t be entirely
over until sometime tomorrow night. They were talking feet of snow now, not
inches.
“What the heck was I
thinking?” she said aloud. “I could have waited until spring to run off. I’m so
stupid!”
