It will take years for the Izgoi to concede that they were led into the palace by a human woman possessed with Glacian magic. It will take longer to unravel the tales spun to satiate the doubt of the mixed-bloods who would not hear of a girl wielding a power they themselves could not. Instead, they will say that the portcullises were torn from the stone, smashed to pieces – or in one case, opened by a particularly inflated Izgoi, who will claim that he had been willed to conquer the portcullises by a god.
