It was dead quiet, apart from the l

It was dead quiet, apart from the leaves and my breathing, which was getting faster. My ears were starting to burn with the cold, even under my hat. My nose stung and my mouth was getting a wee bit numb. The thought of giving up on her crossed my mind, a way of losing one life (hers) by saving another (my own). But even I couldn’t be so heartless. No matter how much we irritated each other, there was something keeping us together, some invisible thread that might at any moment snap, if one of us wasn’t careful.