PrologueIt was a very strange place she’d come to and unbearably warm. Of course at her age, every place was unbearably warm, even when you lived on an ice planet. Cold flashes happened to her with frightening regularity these days. Usually they were annoying, but in Magic, New Mexico—a small Earth village in a desert, of all places—the quick bouts of freezing offered some momentary relief.
“Ma’am? The gentleman at the table in the corner would like to buy you a drink. He says you look hot.”
“He is correct. I am hot,” Rime said matter-of-factly, leaning around the young girl as she eyed the male openly staring at her. He looked quite the spectacle in his white shirt, red suspenders, and grey head covering. Earthlings had such a strange sense of style. “What manner of creature is the gent
