Winter's Folly

Thought for a couple of seconds

For centuries, the Ashen Order has imprisoned every power it fears—dragons, river spirits, living memories, grief itself, and even the force that allows all things to change.

When Brumal, the immortal embodiment of winter, discovers a chained white dragon beneath a mountain, she decides the Order must fall.

Her approach to heroism is less conventional: eating knights, decorating prisoners like festive luggage, summoning emotional-support chupacabras, and sleeping through important meetings.

Joined by her seasonal siblings, a freed dragon, a resurrected knight, an Order defector, and the remorseful founder of the prisons, Brumal journeys from one broken sanctuary to the next. But breaking chains is only the beginning. Centuries of captivity have twisted each spirit’s gift into a curse.

And the final prison holds something even the seasons cannot survive without.

Change itself.