A/N: Surely you guys didn't expect it to be a male god, did you?
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Phei woke beneath an aurora, and for several quiet seconds he simply remained where he was, half buried beneath thick beast pelts while immense ribbons of violet, blue and pale emerald drifted across the opening above their home
—their light filtered through layers of ancient ice and turned the ceiling translucent, filling the cavern with slow-moving color that crawled over the walls, the smooth frozen floor and the enormous crystalline body resting farther away.
The Primordial Frozen Zone had spent almost an entire year attempting to murder Phei in increasingly inventive ways, yet somewhere during that year he had been forced to admit that the place possessed a beauty capable of stealing attention from even its cruelty.
