[open] give me hope in the darkness;

[Leilan]

Leilan

Icy winds blow down from the north, and for one season only, pass beyond the borders of what people call 'the North', these days. The cold air hardly loses strength when it passes over the northern sea and through the water-cold Taiga, into the forest, and joins up with the equally-cold air the is dropped from the mountainous regions in Hyaline and its crystalline lake - air that's as cold as the glaciers it falls off of.

Past Hyaline, further south, the cold air penetrates most of Beqanna's common lands, keen on following the river, where frost clings easily to trees and the damp air of its shores. It is there that the icy winds encounter the strong magic of the water magician, and mentally, for the dreamer who had been riding the icy cold, it is like riding headfirst into a wall.

Leilan considers opening a portal immediately because of the familiarity of this magic, but his first impulse is drowned with the shock of even encountering such magic - much stronger, definitely older than his. If he had to take a wild guess he might guess right about who he found out there, but by then he has already mostly retreated. Mostly, because the winter season is the only season that allows him to extend once more for mental contact.

Good thing you didn't drown.

A water mage never could, obviously, but after their last meeting - was it even a meeting? - it's good to find that he's still, or again, alive. Other than the raven mage could claim, he thinks. He still doesn't even want to think about what happened to her. Is that cowardly? Maybe. Does it bother him? Hmm, no. It keeps one alive, after all.

told you I'd change
even when I knew I never could

@Brennen
Hi, I am also slow and yes he's still technically on Icicle Isle for this post, I think