He stepped back, turned to Camilla, then said quietly, "We're here."
They were just about to step into the cave when the mountain shifted above them.
A massive glacier fragment sheared off the peak of the ice mountain overhead, thousands of tons of ice breaking free with a sound like the world cracking open. It plummeted toward them in a slow, terrible arc, its shadow racing across the snow ahead of it.
Stan reacted without thinking, storing it into his inventory...
The falling glacier dematerialized mid-descent, thousands of tons of ice vanishing from the sky above them in a heartbeat.
Then, as the polar wind settled back into stillness, Stan turned his gaze toward an open stretch of snow off to the side of the cave entrance.
He released the glacier.
