Ella jumped and dropped her knife and the sudden thump of an opening and closing door. The frozen air blocked out a good portion of whatever the snow-covered beast in her house had hissed and she immediately reached for the closest thing to her. Hand grasping a thick iron-cast pan, she didn't even stop to think. She just moved. And smacked the wild beast thing right over the head. The wild cat hissed at their falling near-frozen intruder and Ella panted in sheer surprise at what had occurred in just the matter of minutes. One minute she had been making dinner, the next their was an unconscious snowy... [b]thing[/b] laying before her hearth. What... Just what the heck was going on?!