Episode 4
Two girls walked down the snow-covered road, naked, shivering, and nearly crying from cold and mistreatment. “Why did she oppress us? What did we do to her?” asked Jade.
Tears were running on her cheeks, leaving cold, wet traces. Then she blew her runny nose.
“If even old woman refused to help us, then who would?” “Maybe all people here are like her?” “What if they all will treat us the same way?”
“Then let’s just not go to that village, but keep going along the road till next town?” said Britney.
“Or freeze on the road,” quietly said Jade.
Then, they met another stranger who walked on the road opposite a young woman. She, too, was surprised to see two naked girls.
“Oh, poor darlings, isn’t that too cold to go out like that ?” she asks them.
“Yes, we are very, very cold,” said Britney defiantly, “But we will not take any more humiliation.
“Why would I do such a thing?” asked a woman surprised, “did somebody hurt you before?”
“Yes, one man took our closes off and left us naked, and an old woman scolded us for being naked. ”, said another girl.
“No, I won’t hurt you,” said the woman, quite taken aback, “But I don’t know how to help you. ”
“You need to get warm soon, or you will catch a cold. ” “But I cannot warm you or give you my closes because it is freezing. Then I would catch the flu or pneumonia too.”
Freezing girls just looked at her, and from her warm worlds, they started feeling better already.
She was concerned about the girl’s health.
“You both can catch pneumonia or get a frostbite,” said the woman. “It’s so freaking cold.” “You need to restore your blood circulation.”
She approached the girls and started rubbing their naked backs and hands and shoulders, first Jade’s, then Britney’s. She even bent down and rubbed their rugged frozen soles and toes until red color started to appear on their skins.
“Thank you, I feel better already,” exclaimed Jade,
“You already helped us to feel better.” “I see that you are kind, and if all people in that village are anything like you, we will find help there.”, said one of the girls.
“I am not from here, said the woman. ” “The people in this village are very conservative and may not take you nicely. But I know one person there, my cousin Vicki, she owns a small grocery store in the village, and she will surely help you, especially if you say that I asked her for that. ”
The woman gave them what she could: a pair of her warm red mittens, a woolen scarf, and some money to buy close as soon as they got to a village.
“Thank you, ” said Jade.
“Good luck to you, ” smiled the young woman and hugged both of them. Then she left.
“So, which one of us gets mittens and which gets scarf?” asked Jade, clearing her runny nose again.
“Which do you choose?” asked Britney as indifferently as possible.
“I want a scarf to cover the throat!” said Jade. “Besides, when somebody comes next time, I can cover my lady parts with the scarf too.”
“Fine, ” said Britney, “I thought about the same, but you asked first. ”
Then Britney gave Jade the scarf. Jade wrapped a scarf around her neck tightly, and she immediately looked happier.
Britney pulled mittens on her cold hands and soon started feeling little warms in her hands. At least she could again move fingers on her hands now.
How a small thing given by a stranger can change the person’s mood instantly, even if it does not solve all problems.
