He tilted his head to the side; was she apologizing for being in the middle of the forest? And, speaking of which, why was she walking through the middle of the forest? Insensitive he may be to death, he wasn't about to let some girl die of the cold. So he gave her that you-crazy? look people often give to other people who are being crazy, and did the gentlemanly thing to do when you're out in the middle of nowhere.

So he picked her weak, shivering form up, an arm under knees and an arm under her back, and then turned to study their tracks. They were both heading in the same direction- clean snow ahead.

And so he trudged onwards, ignoring the girl, struggling to keep the load, but he was hyper enough from running away to keep the pace up for a good while.