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He's a bit surprised when Yuki hugs him, wondering if she really knew what it was she was doing since she is pretty clueless about human things. When she says his heart is gone and that he's different his head begins to hurt, holding his hand to the side of his head.

"You're right, we should head back. We can try to wake her again..." As he's starting to walk back down the mountain he collapses, falling unconscious again. He begins dreaming of weird things, the mountain forming over thousands of years, the season changing. Even seeing Yuki during some of the previous Winters and how she returns to mother nature to slumber until the next snow.