though I could see quite well now. I did not complain. My legs were still not to be trusted to hold me quite yet.
Finally, the icicles thinned and the chamber opened into a taller room. Unfortunately, a familiar-looking door, three times the height of the last, blocked our path. The half-blood released my arm and walked toward it. Two glowing orbs that flanked the doors, but nothing happened when Kewyn ran her hand over them.
“Why is it always a huge door?” Rio grumbled.
“Think you can blow a hole in this one?” I asked the kin.
He shook his head.
“M’lady, Miss Aenlilea, could you scoot back a bit?” Rio asked politely, walking toward us but still staring at the ceiling. We began to back up, our eyes drawn to the ceiling, too.
Without the fancy eye patch to let our eyes be adjusted better, I could hardly see the top of the room. Yet, I could very well recognize the shape of a huge icicle when I saw it, even if it was just a silhouette.
“What are we going to do about that?” I asked the half-blood, who was now looking between the huge icicle and the ground where I had just been standing.
“Seems we’re going to melt it down, aren’t we?” Rio grinned, directing his question toward the kin.
“We are?” Levent growled.
“Yeees,” the half-blood purred. “Well, actually, if you’d just send one of your fireballs up there and knock it down that’d be fine, too.”
The dragon-kin squinted at the half-blood for a moment before he nodded and walked forward a few paces. Rio shooed Kewyn and I further away before he backed himself into a wall.
I ducked as I saw the fireball form between the kin’s hands. Before I even had time to clasp my hands over my ears, I heard it the sound of shattering ice.
I peeked up at the ceiling to find the icicle still there, but I could hear the slow crackling of the ice melting. Levent backed up slowly at first, and then he turned and ran behind the half-blood as the icicle freed itself from the ceiling and succumbed to gravity. I covered my ears again just in time for it to shatter against the floor.
Once the last shard had hit the ground and settled, I stood and looked around. Nothing seemed to have changed. Kewyn and I walked forward and looked at