through the cold of a hostile vicinity an auspicious voice lures with pure grandeur planting its seed into the summiteers' heads scourged and relentless under its spell the glacial susurrus whispers in their heads the tempest clouds their minds sharpens its claws to devour them all and drapes their adeptness in a veil tracheas where the one's will enters to shackle the troop only conducted by mania alluring the tempers growing voracity but one wayfarer feels trepidation impeding his motions beholding the manic aura in vitreous eyes of the others the blazing fire of the one vicions of ruin palsies him SEPARATION isolated from the infected he tried to save nine lives uncathartic, left behind scarred by impuissance