The Hidden Hybrid’s Redemption
His arm locked around the stone, his muscles straining until they creaked, anchoring both of our weights against the vertical face of the mountain.
The Frost-Wyrm, confused by the sudden disappearance of the vibrating heat sources and satisfied by the destruction of the lower shelf, let out a final, distant shriek. Its massive, translucent body turned slowly in the wind, its ice-plated tail cutting through the upper fog as it glided back into the deep, dark rifts of the glacier, leaving the high pass in a dead, suffocating silence.
We hung there in the freezing twilight, our bodies pressed flush against the raw basalt ridge, the wind howling around us as the blizzard began to slowly lift.