The Snow Dargles — Mark Cusco Ailes

Tashla, Queen of the Snow Dargles, was running out of time.
The large snowflakes had already begun to fall. Hurrying, Tashla found the opened portal and made her way through it and into the inner void. She had to find a safe place to lay her precious, solitary egg, and she had to find it quickly. Her trusted assistant Klytus, a pure white lizard halfling, nudged aside a boulder in front of the cave they had discovered and where Tashla was destined to give birth.

Not far away, Timbree's heart sank as he saw the snow falling. He knew what that meant and what would now happen in the inner void.

The Tree of No Boundaries had come to life. Suddenly Cyra Marie was mysteriously struck on the back of her head and had slumped, apparently lifeless, to the ground.

Weekland was being covered in an increasingly thick blanket of white snow while the world itself was turning to darkness.

"It has begun," declared Timbree.