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She wrapped the blanket around her shoulders tight to keep out the brisk air and tipped her head back, opening her ht froht was quiet and peaceful There wasn’t a speck of green or brown anywhere White coated the world; a cold, bitter night that was so she’d seen in a while

“Here”

She glanced next to her, finding Darryl offering her aof hot chocolate

“You keep little marshmallows in your house?” she asked him

He shook his head with a dry laugh “I have these hot chocolate packages for a Christht like one”

She took a tiny sip of the piping hot chocolate, stea up in the cold air “I do, thank you” She turned back to the evergreen trees around his yard, with its branches dropping from the heavy snow “It’s so beautiful out here”

“It’s also freezing,” he said, zipping up his coat

“But pretty too,” she countered, unable to look away at the glistening snow “I’ve been traveling around so ot how pretty the snow really is”

“You don’t have a home base?”

Penelope glanced sideways at hiaze soft She shook her head “I haven’t for a really long ti I like the wind in my hair and the adventure that awaits me”

“Sounds like a fun way to live”

“It is” But even as she said that, it seemed like a half-truth At one ti anywhere She lived for the adventure Now, she wondered if there would ever be a place that would e?” she asked before taking another sip fro

He shoved his hands into his pockets “Yup”

“Kinda one of those always-knehat-you-wanted-to-be types of things”

He nodded “My father was a lowlife I didn’t want to be like him, so I made sure I was the exact opposite”