Chapter 223 - Northern Territories
Chris
"We can delay and see you off tomorrow. Are you sure you want to leave in this?" Abigail gestured out into the growing snowstorm. The snow had started falling as the sun rose and a good few inches were already on the ground. The clouds were abundant, forewarning much more to come.
The first snows of the year had come and gone when my arm was finishing up and the current storm dumping a layer of snow on everything was not the first. Watching more accumulate, the layers building, it was making me antsy. I knew that Winter would last for multiple months but I couldn't help but want to start now.
It technically wasn't even winter yet, as the solstice had yet to happen. It was still a month away, which made this a Fall snowstorm.
"Bah, there's no better weather! This is perfect!" I said boisterously, cheerful that my journey would begin with a fun start.
It amused me they wanted to delay on account of the weather when they knew I had conjured worse. Others were already limiting their time outside and everyone already switched out of any metal armor they wore.
Any Warriors that fought in plate would only put it on after they were in the Dungeon, as counterintuitive as that sounded.
Putting it on after clearing the First Floor was less dangerous than freezing to death on the way there while the metal sapped your heat. The only way around it was lining the inside with furs and trying to do the same on the outside, which didn't always work that well.
It made for a... bulky layer to fight in.
"You read the report, right?" Abigail asked after I denied delaying.
The scouts ranged far and wide around the City and she had compiled together all the information we had on anything to the North of us. It would only last for a few days to a week until I traveled past where our scouts had been, but it was better than nothing.
"Yes, I read it but I may need to check and make sure our scouts weren't drunk," I said. The papers said there were Saber-tooth tigers or something remarkably similar that was spotted last week before the snows came.