Bela fell on a snow covered, barren land, face first. Snow fell slowly above. The snow crunched as someone walked towards her. Her older brother, Ivan, came and placed a blanket over her shoulders. "Bela... You've traveled so far. And yet learnt so little. Why do you persist?" Bela voice had weakened over time and became quiet. "I need to find her..." Ivan sat down to her. "Nothing ventured, nothing gained, nothing sown, nothing reaped?" "I can find her..." She was desperate at this point. "Bela, why do you cling to this agony?" Ivan's voice became louder and louder as he spoke. "Why, when faced with the truth, do you close your heart and bear false witness to those who only wish to cleanse you of your pain? You are bounded by nothing more than your own clenched fists! By your fury at the realities that plague every one of us." His voice suddenly became quiet. "She has been taken, and we will never see her again." Bela was struck by the reality of it. "Why are you doing this?" Ivan stood up. "Because I must, Bela. Because I must…" He walked away, the blanket catching to his jacket and following him. He walked through an iron gate, closing it behind him.

Bela realized that she had to move forward. She stood up and followed her brother. She tried to open the gate but it didn't work. "It's not use. I can't get it open." She turns around, noticing a statue behind her.  A soldier holding a lantern. She walked toward it and notices a plaque. "Your hand on your heart chills your soul. Your heart in my hands expels the cold." She looked down at her hands. Suddenly she saw a light in the corner of her eye. She turned around and picked it up. "It's a little glow-worm. Touching it makes me feel better somehow…" She saw more, picking each one up and out of the cold. She looked back and saw the lantern the soldier held, as well as two more by the gate. She put the glow-worms in, lighting the lanterns up. With the light she saw a key on the ground. 'This is like some sort of game.' she thought to herself. She saw a box behind the soldier. She unlocked it with the key and opened it. She picks up an item in the box. "It's a heart carved out of stone… It's so cold." She looked back at the soldier. She put the heart in his hand, wondering what would happen. A metal screech penetrates the air. Bela turns around and saw that the gate had opened. "It opened." She walked through without a doubt in her mind.