Josiah Naleworth Prescott to Addison Brooke (excerpt)

It appears that frost in this land acts, for reasons not yet know to me (though I have been told the local account, of an owl deity whose wingbeats, passing overhead, quickened the water crystals), much like herbaceous growth in our native land. You will see, in the first figure I include, what is in every respect but that of color a moss-covered boulder.

Snow Moss


The will to grow and spread on the part of the frost here is unnervingly strong: should you set down your pack or rest your walkin...