Fae, the Keeper and guardian of the Forest, raises her arms above her head slowly, and closes her eyes. The air before you begins to shimmer, as if an intense heat is rising from the ground. After a moment, the shimmering section of air begins to drip, like it is melting. The air drips away, reveling a barren land. The elf turns to you.
"I'm sorry, but I will not go with you. I do not do well in the cold." You nod, understanding, and step through the gateway. You let out a gasp of suprise and shock and ice cold air hits your skin. You begin to shiver harshly.
You look around you, and see a few off to your left, what appears to be a coat rack. Half a dozen black coats hang on the various hooks. You reach out for one, and then stare in amazement when your hand toutches one. The coats are warm. You hurry into the huge, thick coat, and your shivering decreases greatly. There is even a hood that keeps your neck and face warm. Now that you are warm, you study your new surroundings.
Before you lays a white land. The ground slopes here and there with the mounds of snow that have built up. Cold wind blows even more fresh snow to blanket the ground. You cannot see any trees, or even any shelter. Far on the horizion, giant mountains rear up to the sky. Their snow covered peaks grazing the sky.
A spot of glimmering color catches your eye, and you focus on it through the snow. You can't quite make out what it is, because of the thick snow fall. You decied to move over to it, and find out what it is. You fight your way through the bitting wind to reach the strange mulitcolored spoton the ground.
After what seems to be forever, you finally reach the spot. What you find amazes and confuses you. The glimmering spot of color was actually a huge ring of differnt colored gems!
You kneel down, and wince as the snow chills your knees. That only reminds you of how cold the rest of you is getting. You closer at the huge ring of gems, and realize that the gems are bordering a tunnel. You peer down into the tunnel, but you can't see very far into it. You decied to go in. You are freezing, and this place seems to be the only shelter.
You crawl in head first, and find that the tunnel is very wide, and you have no problems fitting down into it. After a good deal of crawling downward, you start to realize that the air has gotten a little warmer. You grin when you see a faint light illumenating the tunnel. You hurry twords the light, and crawl into a large cavern-like room. Your jaw drops at the place you have discovered.
The cealing of the burrow is low, so low that you have just enough room to walk under. Everything in the burrow is a shade of light blue. You look closer and see that the cave itself is made out of light blue ice!
Jewels, gems, precious metals of all kinds, and preicous stones are unorderly piled off in one corner of the cave. A small harp sits near the edge of the burrow playing soft, beautiful music by itself, as if by magic. The beautiful song fills the air with it's relaxing song. A ways away from the pile of treasure sits a large, white-ish silver nest. When you look closer, you see that is seems to be made out of snow and ice. Asleep in the center of the nest is an amazing creature. An ice dragon.
Off to one side of the room you spot a table and two chairs. In one chair sits a small girl. |
