Ember Frost’s POV

I was frozen in place, my mind blank. Eira’s words strangely made sense, yet my heart refused to accept them.

“If all of this is just a trick, if someone wants us to freeze to death… then why create all these dangers inside the illusion?” I asked, my voice barely above a whisper.

Eira closed her eyes, the same way she always did when she prophesied.

“To slow us down,” she said. When she opened them, she still couldn’t see anyone’s fate. “Remember what ...