Drifting back from the cold place was surprisingly easy.
Noah felt the visage of The Caretaker fade, her pages and her frost dress and her cognizant eyes dissolving out of his awareness the way a dream dissolves in the first breath of waking, and then there was only the pull of his own body, far away and frozen, calling him home.
CRACK!
He opened his eyes in the Domain where an Immense One in the shape of an octopus was looking at him.
BOOM!
The frost shattered around his figure. It burst outward in a ring, the ice that had sealed him shearing off in sheets and spining away into the drifting snow, and the rivers of cold that had been pouring into him without pause for however long he had been gone simply stopped.
