Sihey both discovered where those frozen human remains were, it would make sense if only one of them led them to the spot. Skendus led the way, because this arra would be more effit if he led, and Ortana joined him to keep him pany.

  Tim was to stay st in line, just to keep the dragon warm, since he too could summon fire of many volumes. He knew enough not to burn the dragon by act, and he was happy with this arra, because he was light enough to ride on the dragon's back as well! A bunch of his childhood fantasies were fulfilled just like that, he was really happy.

  Arvena cleared a path feie the dragon to walk on, that was her main job. If they were to make it to their destination, they needed a six foot wide path in front of them, aher the dragon or Timothy were in a good enough state to carve a path, they couldn't. Arvena was their best hope in this matter, they had to follow her lead.

  This procedure may take a while, because it takes a lot of effort to carve a path without having the ice colpse over their heads, but they were forced to be patient. Every extra crack that they heard, gnawed on everyone's souls deeply, because they couldn't shake away the terrifying notion that they could die at any time! Mages weren't immuo heavy objects, after all.

  It took her a full thirty mio carve a twenty-meter long path. At some point the dragon simply went to sleep, because even though he uood the pn, he realized that it would take a while to get away from this dragon-filled graveyard. He was effit, and Tim kept warming his scaly spioo, so this erhaps one of the greatest naps that Geie took! He was far more fortable than he was half an ho.

  Anyway, sidering how slow their progress was, they may have to work for ahree hours. The byrinth did not promise a straight path, after all, there were various sharp turns and drops of elevation, so it wasn’t easy to carve through all of those obstacles! Arvena even pihat she ending a lot of her mana, and even though her mana pool was quite deep, her utter depletion of mana may be a problem soon!

  “Let’s just keep pushing,” Tim enced her, “I feel this big guy heating up already, and I think he's gon warmer the more we move, so we all rest on his back after a while. Let's just hope we don't gh another blizzard, because then we'll be really fucked, thhly humped.”

  “I 't prevent blizzards, so let's hope we're not that unlucky.” She said.

  The following couple of hours were brutal, mostly for Arvena, because she had to move her arms around all the time, in order to implement the utmost precision oh that she was carving. It wasn't easy, it was mentally draining too, but to be fair, everyone else in the group wasn't having a good time either.

  Ortana and Skendus were the closest to hypothermia, because they had to stand around in the cold all the time. They were at the front of the line, so they were exempt of any warmth whatsoever, apart from their clothes and armor which kept them a bit warm. They suffered -15°C temperatures all this time, they were the most harmed.

  At that point everyone had to stop moving, for multiple reasons, even though their destination was just ten more meters away. Everyone had to warm up a little bit, apart from Arvena who has had her own fiery daggers to keep her warm so far, she wasn’t as desperate for warmth, but she stayed near Geie heless. She couldn't spend any more mana, so everyone had to depend on the dragon's hot scales to stay warm.

  Half an hour ter, everyone was in top dition again, because the scales mao warm them up quite quickly, they were fine. Geie looked a lot healthier now too, so he was awake, but he had tried not to move that much these past few minutes, in order to let his friendly goblins rex, and recover - He wao return the favor.

  Skendus hopped off of Geie’s back a moment ter, and asked. “Are you feelier, dragon? you signal your friends from here? You should be able to.”

  Geie shook his head in disagreement, he did not feel ready, regardless of how healthy he looked. This was not the ahey were looking for, but at least they could unicate well.

  Skendus looked through the other's brain, and saw that he was still picturing that icy graveyard behind them, the ohat was full ons. That was enough to realize that the dragon was still unfortable.

  “We have to move,” Skendus added, “I'm fairly certain that the dead dragons could block off any signal that he could send out, maybe dragons do that to each other? If yes, then I assume this ice is an even bigger eo us thahought, because it kept those dead dragon’s carcasses very well preserved, enough for them to bother the living. This is terribly bad luck.”

  The dragon just nodded along the more the other spoke, so their issue was firmed there. In order tress a out of here, the dragon had to make it to those frozen humans, as it appeared to be the only way to get things done.

  They made it there after another half an hour, thankfully. Sihey hadn't been killed by a random blizzard so far, this was simply the best time to signal for help.

  Geie the dragon appeared to be happy now, he was as cooperative as ever. He was a warm, snug little boy, and he wao get his new friends out of here as soon as possible. In order to fulfill that goal, he suddenly lifted his tail up, rounded his spine just like an angry cat would, and then he screeched at a frequency that his goblin friends could not pick up on!

  This looked weird, but when everyone became more aowledging of this guy’s sheer size and overall weirdness, they believed that he knew what he was doing. The screech didn't bring the ice walls down on their heads either, and that was something to be quite happy about.

  Anyway, after Tim saw how big this guy truly was when standing up on his four’s, the questions that popped up in his head afterwards, were exclusively orieowards size. He could not prehend how big dragons actually were!

  “You called him a little guy, Arvena. Do you mean to say that Geie will grow even bigger than he already is?” He asked.

  “Yes, he's barely a teenager.” She answered, a everyone baffled.

  Facts aside, be it a baby or a teenager, Geie still mao get the job done! He seemed to have successfully summoned some of his pals, they were floating all the there, above the top of the icy walls!

  “Haha! He did it!” Tim celebrated, he was the loudest of the bunch. “Let’s get out of this god forsaken forest as fast as we fug !”