"Here, warm your hands." Marilyn gave Larissa the cup. "I got someone to boil some water for you right now. So, there was a little delay."

Larissa held the paper cup with both hands. The heat spread from her palms into her body. It made her hunched shoulders relax.

She sighed in gratitude. If it were not for the fact that she would get stares from others, Larissa wished she could press the paper cup to her frozen cheek.

"If it weren't for you, I would've died," Larissa said to Marilyn. "I'm n