Broken Antler Fen We cannot alter our fate, but we can rise to meet it.

Wraen captured Maia in two graceful moves, but unlike in chess this Queen put up a resistance, before she was taken away from her square. They tumbled down in the snow, made chaos in the board, for a moment not knowing, where was what and how, and then all of a sudden there was a swoosh, a feeling of a free-fall and muted thud. While playing around, they had not noticed a rather deep snow-filled hollow and had rolled right into it.

Not seeing a thing aside the white of snow, Wraen began to squirm around to reassemble her legs such as to be ready to spring and, once her nose caught a whiff of fresh air - she emerged from her snowy-trap like a rocket. With no snow-shoes, she soon sank back, chest deep in snow and began to look around for her sibling. "Oy - sis - are you alive still?" she asked. "Or should I start to rehome your dragons?"