Wizard of the Deep Sea

The tentacles were frozen solid and white as snow.

Clutching my chest as pain surged through it like it might burst, I suddenly saw cracks begin to form in the space around the tentacles.

Startled by the bizarre sight, Malo asked,

[What in the world is that—?]

"It won’t last long."

[What?]

Malo looked around the frozen tentacles in confusion, then shouted in shock.

[...You froze everything around them!]

"That was part of my goal, but it won’t hold.”