[The Drabwurld is the first time Bellamy has ever actually seen snow, the winter months still a little ways away after the dropship landed on Earth. But this snow – this magic, icy snow that holds more like iron than frozen water is a bit too much.]
[Even if the monarchs hadn’t made their declaration about trying to melt and unfreeze it, Bellamy thinks he’d have helped anyway. It gives him a chance to work a little, practice a little, with his knife. He’s already figured out it can shoot off fire, so he starts with that.]
[It starts out with the knife flickering, covered in flames. It’s not that it fails, but it’s time consuming, waiting for it to melt the snow. He wonders about altering it, after a few more uncovered imps, he focuses on making the knife warmer moreso than the flames. The blade heats up as the flames die down, but it cuts through the ice and snow a lot faster, allows him to break through and give the people stuck inside air. One woman practically throws herself at him, promising him her firstborn child, but Bellamy just awkwardly gives her a blanket to stay warm and urges her to get inside.]
[When he’s not doing that, he’s trying to get imps to work with him. Completing the quest last month for Ariadne has helped him along those lines – they’re more inclined to actually listen to what he has to say than brush him off (or dump him out of a bag).]
[He manages to get out of giving them any sort of monetary bribe as payment. It helps that he’d used his knife to cut through ice that had encased two imps at once, and watching the way he did so without provocation pushed some of the other imps towards cooperation.]
[He’s trailed by two or three at most; Bellamy starts by building fires, and the imps use their magic to expand it, melting people and imps alike that have been buried. They only offer their help so long as Bellamy does the same in return, and honestly, the whole process goes a lot better in their joint effort.]
[At the base of one particularly large pile of snow and ice, Bellamy starts building several fires. He uses his knife to expedite the process, and the imps draw out the flames to make the fires bigger, even hitting some of it with thin lines of fire. But the ice is thick enough that the effort is going to take some time, and the fires require care to stay lit for long. So he settles in, starts on a fourth fire and prepares himself to continue on this trend of very cold days.]
( throughout march )
[Even if the monarchs hadn’t made their declaration about trying to melt and unfreeze it, Bellamy thinks he’d have helped anyway. It gives him a chance to work a little, practice a little, with his knife. He’s already figured out it can shoot off fire, so he starts with that.]
[It starts out with the knife flickering, covered in flames. It’s not that it fails, but it’s time consuming, waiting for it to melt the snow. He wonders about altering it, after a few more uncovered imps, he focuses on making the knife warmer moreso than the flames. The blade heats up as the flames die down, but it cuts through the ice and snow a lot faster, allows him to break through and give the people stuck inside air. One woman practically throws herself at him, promising him her firstborn child, but Bellamy just awkwardly gives her a blanket to stay warm and urges her to get inside.]
[When he’s not doing that, he’s trying to get imps to work with him. Completing the quest last month for Ariadne has helped him along those lines – they’re more inclined to actually listen to what he has to say than brush him off (or dump him out of a bag).]
[He manages to get out of giving them any sort of monetary bribe as payment. It helps that he’d used his knife to cut through ice that had encased two imps at once, and watching the way he did so without provocation pushed some of the other imps towards cooperation.]
[He’s trailed by two or three at most; Bellamy starts by building fires, and the imps use their magic to expand it, melting people and imps alike that have been buried. They only offer their help so long as Bellamy does the same in return, and honestly, the whole process goes a lot better in their joint effort.]
[At the base of one particularly large pile of snow and ice, Bellamy starts building several fires. He uses his knife to expedite the process, and the imps draw out the flames to make the fires bigger, even hitting some of it with thin lines of fire. But the ice is thick enough that the effort is going to take some time, and the fires require care to stay lit for long. So he settles in, starts on a fourth fire and prepares himself to continue on this trend of very cold days.]