A tiny sparkling city surrounded by huge, perfectly clear glaciers. Many of the buildings are constructed entirely from snow and ice, partly for the aesthetic, partly because they're the only building materials reliably available in the vicinity. If it weren't for the magic of a long-dead benefactor who really liked those glaciers, it wouldn't be possible to live there at all.

Navethae gazes upon it, enamored.

".... Okay, yes it works, and also I need a minute because the Frozen City is very pretty."

Tarakova laughs. "Isn't it?"

"It is. Just. It's also so impractical! I can kind of see why they'd live there anyway for the vista, but - okay, show me my brother, so he can actually converse."

Tarakova giggles.

The pool shows Rylen again.

Rylen is also giggling.

"I can speak and be heard now?" he confirms.

"You can, yes."

"Of course you'd complain that it was impractical! It's not really impractical to live there, they've got a good magic setup going, it's just the getting there and getting anywhere else from there that's a pain. Food will just sort of appear in places where food is meant to be stored, and there's a magical arctic berry that grows voraciously in the snow and offers excellent nutrition -"

Navethae makes a face.

"- you're making that face, aren't you, you have no poetry in your soul."

"I have some soul poetry! Just not the kind of poetry that involves being in a frozen wasteland, cut off from the rest of society and living off of - what was it, the berries and seal?"

"Their diet is not entirely composed of berries and seal, Navethae."

"Good for them! I'm still not living there!"

"The berries are very pretty," Tarakova contributes. "They don't grow as well away from the city, but I got the valley to make a garden of them."

"Oh, really? That's lovely -" she relays Tarakova's words to Rylen, and then adds, "Which of course means that I win, I can have the berries without trekking across a tundra, ha."

"Yes, get caught by a valley, that's much more sensible."

"Well. Well. You - shut up."

And now he is giggling again.

Navethae giggles, too.

"Honestly, I liked the trek. Wouldn't do it again, I think, but there was some nice scenery and I got to feel very adventurous and competent."

"It's nice to feel competent!"

(Navethae kindly relays this.)

"Yep! I can successfully wander around in the frozen wilderness and not die, very competent. Though, to be fair, I had a guide and was with a group, so it wasn't just me wrestling polar bears and killing them with my teeth for dinner."

He snickers, displaying teeth that would probably have very little trouble killing a polar bear.

"Rylen, I think of the three of us, only one of us could wrestle a polar bear and kill it with their teeth. I don't think it's you."