Frostbound

Hours passed.

A few more hours passed.

The first rays of sunlight started to peak over the horizon.

"What am I doing wrong?" exasperation colored my tone.

I had been at this for the entire night and the sun was already beginning to rise. A full night with nothing to show for it.

I tried everything I could think of to gain 'enlightenment' and comprehend a law, but nothing worked. I spent most of my time just exploring the feeling I had during the boss fight.

Something about it made it feel like it was the right direction but no matter what I did, it remained elusive. To make my ice denser I had to make it colder, those two were linked somehow and I didn't know how.

I knew the science behind it but that did little to help. As things got colder, molecules slowed down and got closer together, therefore becoming denser. I knew that theoretically, it was practically that I was having trouble.

Having magic powers for a little over a month wasn't enough time to learn the ins and outs I needed to make this easier.

To make something denser, the space between the atoms needed to shrink. The same amount of mass had to take up less space. Simple math. Except compressing it did absolutely nothing.

Every time I tried to squeeze the ice I was manipulating, it would shatter. Every attempt to make my ice denser resulted in ice shards exploding in my face.

There was something I was missing and for the life of me, I couldn't figure it out.