“As I told you, only souls that carry the light themselves can give it to others.” (Winter Falls)
So, what does it look like when one feels the terror of their own empty soul staring back at them? Little by little, their light is taken from them before they even realize it, and they set on a path to dull the ache.
For Katie, her world tumbled down with one heartbreaking truth. From then on, every event and person became seen and judged through that one moment. No matter what they did and how hard they tried to show her something different it couldn’t be victorious, at least not for long. Because Katie’s answer for the emptiness is to build an inner fortress to protect herself from all the future pain that lays ahead. It’s understandable to an extent, but it makes it hard to endear yourself to her, or even like her at times. There are more times that she’s downright hateful to those around her that reach out to her, seeing only her own pain rather than trying to glimpse anyone else’s grief. Then when the full weight of her empty soul bears on her, her path takes her to the most desperate turn of them all.
For Shay, he seemingly bears his diminishing light better. No one has great expectations for him. Rather the general opinion is he’ll follow in his father’s troublesome drunken footsteps. Yet Shay takes a different approach from Katie in his chaotic world, hiding behind a prankish grin. And he sees past the icy exterior Katie has built and tries to break through because he sees glimpses of someone else, one not jaded by the painful past. Yet it cools again into ugly, familiar shards of rejection for him just as a hopeful spark had appeared, and finally he’s left alone to face his own void.
And that’s when Winter Queen finds them. They’re desperate and alone and empty. She takes Shay as her prisoner as Katie finally begins to see what she’s lost as she stayed imprisoned in her personal icy refuge. How does one escape Winter’s hold? You realize it’s never meant to last forever, to lay seize to your heart. You find the path to melt it away. You leave the shadows of Winter behind, to feel the life of Spring breathe anew into your soul, to let the warm of Summer ignite your spirit, and finally allow yourself to celebrate the fullness of the Autumn harvest. Then thankfully you find you’re not looking into the abyss of your own soul anymore. Instead the opposite is discovered. There’s a light pouring from it that overflows into others. Hopefully, Katie and Shay will uncover it in time to ensure Winter falls.
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