Li Mu was on the fourth day of his stay in the Sanctuary of the Way when his presence was requested for an audience with the Grand Master of the Sanctuary and the Supreme Savant of the Brotherhood of Swords. That was also the day when the first snow fell.

In one single night, winter came quietly and draped the whole world under a sheet of white.

Every inch of the wilderness save for places within range of Trees of Eternity had turned into a subzero tundra. Even ...