Kate shook her head, unwilling yet to speak of what she'd seen, what she'd thought to have seen, until she could locate it again with her own eyes. There was no indication of where the shadow had moved to and she feared her mind was playing tricks on her. She took a deep breath and attempted to calm herself, Kitty needed to be able to depend on her she knew. She couldn't simply become a liability, not here out in this strange and frozen countryside.<br/><br/>She felt her sister's eyes on her and refocused her vision on the path they were hurrying down. The grass they struggled through was higher again, the ice replaced with droplets of water as they approached the gaping crevice. The air warmed mercifully the closer they came to the clearing, until even the dampness of the blowing reeds had almost a soothing affect. Kate squeezed her twin's arm a little tighter just the same.<br/><br/>"We should rest here and enjoy this respite while we can," she spoke firmly, studying the area cautiously. The wide pit was surrounded by smooth, oblong stones which were spaced with unnatural regularity around its circumference. A rush of warm air issued forth from the sloping depths of the cave with a long groan, almost like the breath of some massive beast. Kate clenched her fingers around Kitty's gloved hand, now was not the time to entertain such fantastical thoughts.<br/><br/>"I saw the shadow of something in the fields off to the right," she answered her sister's earlier question at last. "I thought it to be a sitting man at first, or rather I hoped we could have found ourselves a guide. I fear my imagination is getting the best of me, dearest sister." She gazed at first into the yawning chasm, then to her own feet. "I have no desire to be a burden on you..." she shook her head beneath the hat that Kitty had so kindly placed upon her head. "Yet I must confess, I've no idea where we are nor even how we came to be here." It was selfish, she knew, to admit this and steal away the faith her twin would have placed in her.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>