HAPPY BIRTHDAY

AURUM looked out from the window of her room.  She stared at the night sky filled with stars.  Suddenly, snow started to fall.  She felt delighted.  It had been five days since they arrived here at the Northern continent.  But every time she saw the snow falling, she still felt thrilled. 

It's not that she hadn't seen snow before.  Of course, she had.  It's just that, the snow in the Northern continent was different.  It was whiter and purer.  Even the shape of the snowflakes was much more defined. 

She stretched out her hand and let the snow fall into her palm. 

She, her mother, Black, and Clay were in a hotel at a small town in one of the smallest countries in the Northern continent.  The country was called Sarmatia.  And the small town they were in was called Sylvan – named after the elf queen herself, Queen Sylvanna.