Frostbound

Breathe in

Hold

Breathe out

Repeat

...

This... wasn't working.

It was extremely boring to sit and do nothing for an extended period of time, especially after I had been so active in these last few weeks. If this was before, it wouldn't be so bad. Lying around and watching a tv show or reading something was a great way to pass the time.

It felt like torture to bring me out of a sedentary life, hand me cool magical skills, make me fight for my life almost daily, and then ask me to sit still and think about some unknown magical law. I had to admit that I didn't know what I was doing either.

In books, the main character just sits down for a few minutes and magically understands, that wasn't how it worked in real life. Sitting and thinking really hard about it didn't make me understand it any better.

I wasn't going to just magically understand a law by sitting and pondering about it, that was absurd. That was like having no introduction to calculus and trying to learn it through meditation. It was crazy, crazy people would do that.

I admit, I had zero experience with anything regarding a law, but how hard could it be? I knew how ice formed, the freezing temperature of water, hell, I even knew the density. Which is lower than water if you were curious, which is why it floats.

Ice that's most commonly found in nature is not the ice that I was envisioning while I was meditating. Any ice that wasn't clear had air bubbles in it that would compromise the structure.