Shirahime-Syo: Snow Goddess Tales

Shirahime-Syo: Snow Goddess Tales (白姫抄, Shirahimeshō) is a manga series by Clamp, a creative team made up by Satsuki Igarashi, Ageha Ohkawa, Tsubaki Nekoi and Mokona.

Plot
Shirahime-Syo: Snow Goddess Tales opens with a man wandering in a blizzard. He encounter a woman who is waiting and after advising her to seek shelter, tells her the snow is the tears of the snow princess.

In "On Wolf Mountain" (牙狼の山 Garō no Yama), Fubuki, a young girl, sets out to seek revenge from the mysterious black wolf who killed her father. When the same wolf saves her from mountain dogs, she develops an attachment that complicates things with her family.

"The Ice Flower" (氷の花 Kōri no Hana) centers on a man, who leaves his lover, Kaya, waiting by a cold lake. He returns years later, believing she will have found someone else and grown old, and finds her frozen in the lake, unchanged from the day he left her.

In "Hiyoku no Tori" (比翼の鳥 Wings Side-by-side, "Happily Married Couple"), a soldier loses his way on a snowy mountainside while returning home to his fiancée. In his frustration, he shoots two herons, only to discover upon his eventual return home that they had been guiding him.

The manga concludes with a continuation of the opening scene. The woman reveals herself as Shirahime and before ascending with spirit wolves, replies that the snow is the tears of humans.