“Um, Blizzard?” I said, staring at Drop uncertainly. “What’s going on?”
But Blizzard looked too shocked to respond. She was staring at Drop as if she did not believe her eyes; in fact, she even rubbed her eyes and looked at him again, probably to make sure that her eyes weren’t playing tricks on her.
Before our startled eyes, Drop’s frozen form melted faster and faster, with chunks of ice outright falling off his body and crashing onto the streets. In seconds, Drop was totally unfrozen, but his body no longer looked nearly as calm as before. His skin—if you could call it that—was literally bubbling, even boiling, and he gave off an intense heat, like water boiling on a stove top, except ten times worse. Steam rose off his body, which made him look even scarier than usual.
“What an annoy
