Aidan felt the suffocating snow drown his body, making it impossible for him to move. He just wanted to stop and let it all end, as he thought he had no point in enduring the pain any longer. 

"Mary" he barely cried out with his throat freezing as he coughed up blood. He knew with all the pain in his joints and muscles, he had to keep moving for her.

He persevered through the mountain of snow using his frozen hands, thinking about her dreamy hazel eyes, which he would stare at for hours as they walked through the courtyard of his castle. 

"Damn you God, I wish you never named me King," Aidan pronounced in the frozen wasteland while he climbed out of the stacking snow and reached the top of the small hill with the blood trailing from his hands. 

Aidan heard a faint voice coming from afar as he stood still in the snow. 

"We need to find him, as you know what Prince Herald said, 'Any man of Valentin who finds the traitor King Aidan the Impoverished will be granted a hundred gold coins.'" whispered the man from afar, and Aidan knew he had to hide fast, so he buried himself in the snow. 

The second man screamed, "Burning hell to that traitor, he made me lose my older brother in the war against those white, long-eared freaks while the coward ran away. I would kill him myself if it weren't for the prize money to find him." 

Aidan's heart sank when he heard their voices get louder, and one of them spoke near him.

"There seems to be a trail of blood here, we might have finally found him." the second man joyfully observed. Aidan used all the energy he had left with his bloody hands to dig back twenty inches so they couldn't catch him. 

Again, he heard their voices, but this time coming from above.

"Storm the devil, Gerald, the trail ends here, and the traitor is most likely taken by the frost elves, and they would love to kill the man who started the war. I think we shall retreat for now."

Gerald explains, "The trail would have been flooded by the snow if he was far from us. Owen, we can still catch the traitor if we find him and the elves."

"We have barely food and are freezing and can easily get ambushed by those cowards who hide and attack. We must retreat Gerald, and both of us know this is a battle we can not take." Owen advised, and with Gerald agreeing, they both walked off. 

Aidan is in an even worse position of having his body buried in the snow, thinking about the days he would love the snow and would demand his mother and father to take him there. He would see the beautiful crystals that fell on the floor, which he would call a wonderland. He never thought that those crystals would send him through hell. 

For once, before he heard, the commoners scream, "All hail Aidan the Grand King!" in the streets of the grand kingdom of Valentine. That King is seen giving up in the fallen snow with no power left like the peasants that served him.