"Can we talk to it?" Hermes asked, glancing between Magni and the snarling wolf-dragon that circled the barrier. "Like… reason with it? Tell it we mean no harm?"
Magni barked a laugh that had no humor in it. "Reason? With that? No. It's Skadi's hound. By Void law, we're trespassers. It doesn't matter what we want. We die here out of starvation or it tears us apart."
"That's very reassuring." Hermes muttered.
The beast moved first. Its massive claws swiped through the barrier. The ice didn't break. Its body phased through like mist, but when Hermes slammed a fist into the wall to test it, his knuckles cracked against something solid.
No way out.
"Trapped." Ymir hissed. "Of course."
The wolf-dragon lunged. Ymir raised both hands, shards of jagged ice forming into chains that lashed out, wrapping around its claws. The beast snarled, flexed once, and shattered them like glass.
"You can't fight ice with ice. Fucking hell. " Ymir growled, teeth bared.
