When she came to with a jerk, she really was half-frozen, kept thawed only by puffs of searing steam from the dragon's nostrils, evidently. With a disgruntled noise, she found her way back up to a stand, half-drenched from the melted snow that she had sunk deep down into. She needed to borrow shelter here in deserted Greenshire now; there was no way she was going to keep traveling when she was this wet. She would freeze solid if she didn't find a way to warm up and change into dry clothes from her pack, and flying high near the clouds wasn't going to spare her that fate.
It was when she had to brush off an inches-thick pile of snow off her body when she realized something. It was hard to tell where the sun was when the cloud-bloated sky covered it so thoroughly, but the problem was that t
