Wow... let me paint you a picture of what this is playing for me......
The character wakes up in the snow, flakes of white falling around them but it is not snow but ash, the forest is nothing but burnt husks of trees and still burning bright ahead is a village, as the music picks up is when the character enters the burning village, making their way through the inferno of what was once a town.
The soft pause in the music is when the character might find a little bit of hope among all the fire, a survivor or maybe something worth saving.