"It does manage both little and big miracles. But one needs patience and fortitude to see it through," Arha said, clearly boggling as she stretched out a finger to poke at the stuff. "It is cold!" She watched the flake melt and turn to water and her jaw dropped.

"It is water? You freeze water and make it fall from little...clouds?" A hazy memory prompted a word to surface. Snow! "I have never seen such a thing before, true as I stand here."