Chapter 116

IZZY POV

We woke to snow covering every surface in the cell.  It blew so hard in the night that it looked like it stormed inside our prison.  When the snow began to cover my blanket it made a layer of insulation so I was warmer than I had been since I got here.  I wasn’t warm, I was just not as cold.

Because I didn’t want to disturb the snow and let any of the chilly air in, I refused to get up for breakfast.  It just sat there in the bucket because Bart didn’t want to move, either.  We lay on our straw beds and talked.  I found out that he was once married to a mortal woman, and they had two children together.  One of the children had died of the bubonic plague but the other child and his wife lived long lives.  Neither one had wanted him to turn them, so he had to watch them die. 

“What year was this?” I asked, curiously.

“Mary was born in 1347 and Henry was born in 1351.&n