Tony heard Silvano growl low in his throat, but he refused to back down. When the older boy's voice ground out that he, too, was coming along and not just staying, Tony's spirits lifted. He pounced to keep up with Silvano in the deep snow, his hind legs screaming in protest, but it was the only way he knew how to keep up and not get left behind. He was so very, very cold. And Silvano... Tony felt terrible, because Silvano was so much more soaked than he.
"Fire," Tony echoed Silvano, as if reaffirming the word, as if it made it all that more real and right in front of him. The fire was warm, which Tony's young mind could only associate with good, safe, and happy. Silvano continued on in his talking, naming things that made Tony's eyes stay open instead of falling into sleep. The cold had begun pinching at his nerves, tempting him to fall asleep. He was always warm when he slept... He stumbled once, his eyes having drifted but for a moment, but picked himself back up. It took them awhile and many, many trials to reawaken Tony from a dreamland, but they eventually caught sight of the manor and soon arrived on its doorsteps. Tony looked up to the daunting building and then to Silvano, whose legs were shaking profusely and whose fur was matted with ice. "We're here, Silvano!" Tony called up as if Silvano could not hear him, as if he were speaking to someone far, far away. But to Tony, the sound was soft in his own ears, his hind legs trembling and faltering, consciousness light in the boy's eyes. He sneezed once, his backside falling with a thunk from the force of the surprise expulsion.
Guardian walks. "Guardian talks." Guardian thinks.
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