"He failed!" A voice exclaimed, teeth chattering. Rubbing arms up and down to keep warm. Even with three coats and long underwear a palace of ice in the heart of a glacier was no place for a furless monster to be. Well, mostly furless. Or for one who usually would live closer to a volcano. Kholine could have given them resistance, but she didn't care too. She enjoyed the shivering.

"No, not entirely." She said, crossing her legs and tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. It crackled with the ice.

"But you just said that the knife broke," they pointed out, "and you took away your powers from him." How dumb was the Emposa? Well, she hadn't told them the entire plan.

"Oh yes, but getting the blood was just a bonus. The dust is already there. It sounds inside, doing its work, the faster he heals the faster it's process will be. Soon he'll be perfect!" She chuckled, laughed. A deep laugh that chilled the statues that made up her throne freeze even deeper. 

"He'll be invincible first." 

"Yes, but then we only have to take out the girl and no one will know his weakness."