The North Face of the Heart

'When Amaia Salazar was twelve years old, she was lost in the forest for sixteen hours. It was early in the morning when they found her thirty kilometers north of the place where she had strayed from the path. Faded in the heavy rain, the blackened and scorched clothes like those of a medieval witch rescued from a bonfire, and, in contrast, the white skin, clean and frozen as si had just emerged from the ice.