Salvation or Mercy? Part-4.

At Jareth's insistence, the faces on the tree trunk started to tell their story to him, and Jareth listened to their story with great interest.

The story was quite long, but to summarize it all in short,

Phoebus and Aphos are twins; they once lived far away in the northern areas, where it snowed every single day.

Their parents were beggars in that small village at the foot of a snow-covered mountain, and they often had nothing to eat.

Their father frequently went to the mountain range to search for food.

That man had no hunting skills, so he couldn't even bring back wild animals to cook; he used to scavenge what other predators had left behind after hunting and eating other prey.

Although they were living a malnourished life, the twins were pleased to stay with their parents.

But one day, a massive snowstorm appeared.