Fer expected to land in water, but a bitter cold seized hold of her. For a moment she thought they were stranded in the aether, the limitless void sucking their life away. But light blinded her. It took a few moments to adjust to the dazzling brilliance of the scene before her. They stood part way up a mountain, a precarious ledge far above ground level.
Before them lay a landscape of rock and snow, breathtakingly beautiful. She couldn"t grasp the scale of it; she felt tiny and huge at the same time. Snow and rock reached all the way to the edges of the world. At the same time, she felt she could reach out and touch the tips of those far mountains. The sky glowed blue. The sun hung low in the west, but it was bright still, warming the ice to the colour of honey. It was quiet. Nothing move
