The Hidden Hybrid’s Redemption
It was a Frost-Wyrm of the high rifts—an ancient, territorial leviathan that had slept beneath the glacier since the First Age, now awakened by the violent thermal overload of the Spires below.
The beast let out a high-pitched, glass-shattering shriek that made the six-legged tundra striders panic, their massive claws losing their grip on the slick ice shelf.
With a single, sweeping strike of its massive, ice-plated tail, the leviathan shattered the trailing guard sled, sending the white-armored Pale Guards and their mounts screaming into the bottomless abyss below. The lead sled, carrying Kaelen, Killian, and me, fishtailed violently across the narrow ledge, the outer runner hanging useless