Chapter 2: Out of the Frying Pan

The pillar of ice shatters into a cloud of icy splinters. Where they hit exposed skin, you can feel the sting of something extremely cold against you, but it melts away into nothingness quickly enough that it has no noticeable long-term effects.

As the pillar shatters, the frost lines on walls and floor pause in their tracks. Slowly, very slowly, they start to recede toward the room that once served as cold storage. And then, in a sudden mad rush, they all disappear back into that room, the door in becoming encased in ice. Almost like... they're hiding...?

Those outside with the cart hear a distant sound a bit like shattering glass coming from the small outbuilding Yelnar and Elora entered.

Elora, you’re not certain exactly what is going on. Whatever happened with this room, it seems to have become completely iced over. The door remains open, though it and (as far as you can see from here) the interior walls and floor have become encased in ice.