I will also request that we keep that a secret between just you and I…

When Ares awoke, Lana was not beside him. She sometimes left earlier than when he awoke, but that was a rarity. Today was the day Ares was finally allowed to start working out too, so he took the opportunity of her absence and quickly stepped out.

The brisk air struck him, the cold clinging deep within his bones. He smiled as the cold took to his insides before he then started to walk down the path, and then eventually jog, before he was finally running.

What bliss he felt as his feet struck the pavement. He enjoyed the feeling of the ground against his feet, the cold air swallowing around him, the warmth that was beginning to form inside him to bat the coldness that had taken his bones.

It had been far too long.