Glacial blue eyes closed tightly, it did no good. Mathis? legs were no longer able to support the crushing soul pain, which drove him to his knees. The force behind his fall cracked the ice beneath him. The part of his blood tying him to Tierreglacia and his family burned, as his world did. He?d gathered himself off the grass that now lay frigid and frozen around him. Summoning his power of ice he straightened upright and created an ice bridge over the ground to ferry him home. But no matter the speed he slid across the ice, he still returned too late to do anything other than stand on the ridge and witness his world burn.