Winston carried Irina, while Damien carried the young ones, and Curtis took with him all their luggage. The entire family moved to their new home in that manner.

When they passed by the waterhole, a splash was suddenly heard. As water splashed from the surface, they turned to ice crystals in the air, falling onto the frozen ground with “ding ding ding” sounds.

Irina looked in that direction with a broad beam. “Bluepool! You really haven’t gone into hibernation?”

With a layer of white frost over his extremely fair skin, he looked like a mythical character carved out of ice. There was a calm and magnanimous expression on his face,...