Nano 5 – Ice

The chill started on her nose. A faint numbness that she noticed when the snot dripped down her lip and she raised an arm to rub the frozen material of her sleeve against her face and pain radiated from the contact as the flesh crumbled like dust.

The chill spread like a bloodstain across her cheeks and lips, until her panting breaths shattered the fragile fats and left her with a skeletal grimace. Then spiderweb fractures blossomed from her cheeks and her next breath scattered the skin with the falling snow. She inhaled, and the cold spread to her tongue.