As it turned out, it was pretty fucking cold in the north. After their … visit with the Armada, they had made the decision to keep going rather than turning back. A decision that Aresenn was beginning to regret. Yeah, the scenery was nice to look at. But this perpetual winter crap wasn’t something that he’d care to entertain for very long.
When they happened upon a large, relatively open expanse, he had to hesitate a moment to process what he was seeing. They looked like little miniature trees poking up out of the ice. How odd. However, upon closer inspection … it seemed that they had fairly large trucks for such short trees, and what kind of tree could root in such thick ice anyhow? Then he understood. The parts of the evergreens that they could see were merely just the tops, and the majority of the tree remained frozen underground. Interesting.