Linh's socks and shoes were soaking wet and her hat was nearly blowing off her head as she walked throughout the town. A snowstorm had just finished sweeping through the town, so this was the first time she could leave and look for the masked man she had seen days before.
Everything in sight was covered in snow. Even the street signs had a layer of frost that made them nearly impossible to read, so Linh found herself quickly lost. She tried to use a GPS on her phone, but she had no signal and every time she took her hands out of her mittens, they began to sting in the cold air.
She finally gave up. She couldn't see, feel most of her body, and didn't even have a certain idea of where to look, and she did not want to wander too far away from home and become stranded on such a snowy day. However, when she turned around, a giant sign stood in front of her that seemed untouched by the weather. No swimming in the river.
River? Linh thought. She didn't even know a river was in the city. She walked in the direction of the sign to indeed find a tiny river. It was a beautiful sight. It rushed calmly downward and it was nice to gaze upon with all the snowflakes falling in and getting lost with the current. Linh lost all her anxiety of being lost. I should sit for a minute and just sight-see, she decided.
She took her hands and swept away a patch of snow for her to sit on when she noticed blood on the side of the river bank. It was dried up, but it was an abnormally large amount. Uneasy and not knowing whether or not it was serious enough to report, Linh turned back. All the tranquility she had vanished.